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 intentoriginal 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?

JUDICIARY REVIEW

• 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?