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Test Review
Thu= rsday, April 23, 2009
11:= 56 AM
Dual justice s= ystem
Congress sets = up Federal court system and states have own
District court= =3D lowest court
Circuit Court = of Appeals
All federal ju= dges are appointed by President
Senate approves
For life
Supreme court = mostly fed from circuit court (DC mostly)
Rule of 4
4 of the 9 justices must want to hear a case for it to be scheduled
Released audio= tapes of controversial cases starting in 2000
Marbury vs Mad= ison
Judicial review
Chief justice John Marshaw
Roger B Tawney= case
Slavery
Dread scott decision
Post Civil War=
Pro business and pro monopoly
3 conservative judges
Scalia
Thomas
Alito
Know your 9 judges
3 liberal judg= es
Bryer
Souder
Ginsburg
Judicial court= esy
Earl Warren = =3D most activist
Activist case = =3D brown vs board
Reniquest =3D = most judicial restraint
Acting as a wa= tch dog over gov is not judicial restraint
Create new pre= sident =3D judicial activism
AP: lots on judicial activism and restraint
Judicial activ= ism =3D creating law by setting precedence
Restraint =3D = refine and strengthen the law; simply upheld current laws
Thomas
Never asks questions
Almost never rights opinions
Restraint
Conservative
W bush appointed
Educated through affirmative action, but against it
Tory vs Cocran=
Sun= day, May 31, 2009
7:0= 5 PM