Vieth v. Jubelirer concerned _____.
a. districting in New Jersey
b. gerrymandering
c. racial discrimination
d. policies that favored Pennsylvania Democrats
Who wrote the opinion of the Court in Ex parte McCardle?
a. Justice Grier
b. Chief Justice Marshall
c. Chief Justice Taney
d. Chief Justice Chase
In Roper v. Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court overturned a sentence of death _____.
a. because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct
b. because of racially discriminatory jury selection
c. because the defendant was younger than 21
d. because the defendant was older than 15 but younger than 18
The difference between de facto segregation and de jure segregation is that _____.
a. de facto segregation is instituted by law, while de jure segregation occurs in practice
b. de jure segregation is instituted by law, while de facto segregation occurs in practice
c. the Constitution specifically protects de facto segregation but not de jure segregation
d. the Constitution specifically protects de jure segregation but not de facto segregation
In United States v. United States District Court, the Supreme Court ruled _____.
a. 9″0
b. 8″1
c. 6″3
d. 5″4
Robert Yates believed ______.
a. that the Supreme Court would practice judicial review
b. that the Constitution protected the rights of the states
c. that the meaning of the Constitution was fixed
d. that judges could be trusted to decide cases correctly
What president nominated Sandra Day O”Connor to the Supreme Court?
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Bill Clinton
c. Ronald Reagan
d. Richard Nixon
The principal dissent in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission and the majority
opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission were written by ______.
a. Justice O”Connor
b. Justice Stevens
c. Chief Justice Roberts
d. Justice Kennedy
Who was a nominee of President Obama to the Supreme Court?
a. Samuel A. Alito
b. Antonin Scalia
c. Elena Kagan
d. John Roberts
In Powell v. Alabama (1932), the unconditional right to counsel was incorporated into
the Fourteenth Amendment and applied to the states.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
The Supreme Court last held an act of Congress unconstitutional on nondelegation
grounds in _____.
a. Schecter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
b. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation (1936)
c. Carter v. Carter Coal Co. (1936)
d. Mistretta v. United States (1988)
In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court reasoned that _____.
a. the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited state discrimination only
b. the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited state and private discrimination
c. the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was a legitimate exercise of congressional authority
d. section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment authorized Congress to eradicate all forms of
racism
Boumediene v. Bush involved a challenge to _____.
a. the Patriot Act
b. the Crime Control Act of 1968
c. the Geneva Convention
d. the Military Commission Act
The proposition that the national government and the states face each other as equals
across a precise constitutional line defining their respective jurisdictions describes
______.
a. the doctrine of national supremacy
b. the doctrine of dual federalism
c. the supremacy clause
d. None of the above
An appeal from a decision by a U.S. District Court in California is typically heard by
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ______.
a. Ninth Circuit
b. First Circuit
c. Third Circuit
d. Federal Circuit
In Employment Division v. Smith (1990), the Supreme Court _____ a claim by _____
that their ritualistic use of _____ constituted free exercise of religion.
a. accepted; Satanists; animal sacrifice
b. rejected; Native Americans; peyote
c. accepted; Native Americans; peyote
d. rejected; Satanists; animal sacrifice
The necessary and proper clause is the source of the doctrine of ______.
a. judicial review
b. implied powers
c. concurrent powers
d. exclusive powers
In New York Times v. U.S. (1971), the Supreme Court rebuffed the Nixon
administration’s attempt to block publication of ____.
a. an editorial critical of the Vietnam War
b. an advertisement taken out by critics of the Nixon administration
c. a document containing instructions on the creation of an atomic bomb
d. the Pentagon Papers
Who became chief justice after Earl Warren?
a. Warren Burger
b. John Roberts
c. Hugo Black
d. William Rehnquist
In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), the Supreme Court _____.
a. upheld the president’s power to seize the steel mill in national emergencies
b. held that Congress could not authorize the president to seize the steel mill in national
emergencies
c. held that the president’s seizure of the steel mill during a time of national emergency
was unconstitutional
d. held that the president was obligated, under his responsibility to “take Care that the
Laws be faithfully executed,” to seize the steel mill to avert a strike during the Korean
War.
McCray v. United States involved _____.
a. an income tax
b. a tax on carriages
c. tariffs
d. a tax on oleomargarine
In United States v. Pink (1942), the Supreme Court held that _____ carry the same
weight as _____.
a. executive arrangements; executive agreements
b. executive agreements; treaties
c. treaties; federal law
d. executive orders; acts of Congress
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the Supreme Court struck down a state
requirement that a married woman seeking an abortion must _____.
a. wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure
b. notify her husband of her intentions
c. undergo a psychiatric evaluation
d. give her “informed consent”
Before Brown v. Board of Education was reargued in 1953, Chief Justice _____ died
and was replaced by Earl Warren.
a. William Howard Taft
b. Charles Evans Hughes
c. Harlan F. Stone
d. Fred M. Vinson
Who was the first Supreme Court nominee of President George H. W. Bush?
a. Clarence Thomas
b. William J. Brennan
c. David J. Souter
d. Sandra Day O”Connor
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris concerned _____.
a. school vouchers
b. Bible reading in public schools
c. prayer at high school football games
d. a nativity scene on public property
In Reynolds v. Sims, Chief Justice Warren discussed _____.
a. racial discrimination
b. the federal analogy
c. official corruption
d. South Carolina legislative districts
In Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960), the Supreme Court held that drawing political
boundary lines to exclude minority voters violated the Equal Protection Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
Under Article III, _____ controls the jurisdiction, both original and appellate, of the
lower federal courts.
a. the Supreme Court
b. the Congress
c. the president
d. the Justice Department
Justice ______ did not file an opinion in Hylton v. United States.
a. Cushing
b. Patterson
c. Iredell
d.Chase
Which of the following is usually included within the list of Ashwander Rules?
a. The Court will not formulate a rule of law broader than the facts of the case require.
b. If possible, the Court will dispose of a case on nonconstitutional grounds.
c. The Court will not pass upon the validity of a statute on complaint of one who fails to
show injury to person or property.
d. All of the above
According to Justice Stone in United States v. Butler, “the only check upon our own
exercise of power is _____”
a. the president
b. the Constitution
c. the people
d. our own sense of self-restraint
The principle of “one person, one vote” was first articulated in _____.
a. Baker v. Carr (1962)
b. Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
c. South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1965)
d. Gray v. Sanders (1963)