Aim: What do you need to know to
succeed on the JUDICIARY exam?
TAKE OUT HW PACKET
• What is a writ of certiorari?
• How does one become a federal judge?
• How long is the tenure of a federal
judge?
• Why are federal judges appointed not
elected? Why do they serve for life in
good behavior?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• What is contained in Article I,
Section 8?…significance?
• What is the significance of
McCulloch v. Maryland?
• What is the significance of Marbury
v. Madison?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• What is the difference between judicial
restraint and judicial activism?
• What is meant by original intent?
• What is meant by contemporary
meaning?
• If you believe in strict-constructionism,
which judicial philosophy do you
support?
• Is a liberal or a conservative more likely
to be an adherent to judicial restraint or
judicial activism today?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• What is the function of the Office
of Management and Budget?
• What is the function of the Council
of Economic Advisors (CEA)?
• What is the function of the General
Accounting Office (GAO)?
• What is the function of the Office
of Personnel Management (OPM)?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• What does Article III of the Constitution
specify?
• What is included within the original
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
• Who determines the size of the federal
judiciary?
• Who determines the jurisdiction of
lower federal courts and the appellate
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• What is the significance of the
Interstate Commerce clause of the
Constitution?
• …checks and balances?
• How can Congress check the federal
judiciary?
• How can the President check the federal
judiciary?
• How can the federal judiciary check
Congress and the Presidency?
JUDICIARY REVIEW
• How can cases come before the
Supreme Court?…which is more
common?
• What formal tools are available to
Congress in exercising oversight of
the federal bureaucracy?
• What should you know about the
Earl Warren Court?
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What is the “iron triangle”?
What is “discretionary authority”?
What is an “amicus curiae” brief?
What is the “legislative veto”?
Why was it ruled unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court?