Note: We will finish federal courts and then start the federal bureaucracy in the second class of the week.
Ch 15: Judicial Branch
1. What is the organizational structure of federal courts and
state courts?
2. How has the U.S. Supreme Court used selective incorporation to expand its power?
3. How has the nomination and confirmation process for federal
judges evolved over time?
- Quiz: Ch 14 - Federal Bureaucracy
- Summarize: Federal & State Courts
- What are the structures of the federal courts and the state courts?
- How does a case reach the Supreme Court?
- How did the Affordable Care Act reach the Supreme Court?
- Writ of Certiori Petition (example)
- Analyze: 14th Amendment and Selective Incorporation
- How does the text of the 14th Amendment allow the Supreme Court to get involved in state activities (such as public K-12 education in Brown v. Board of Education)?
- Analyze: Confirmation Politics
- How is a federal judge (District, Circuit, or Supreme Court) nominated and confirmed?
- President weighs a variety of factors and nominates an individual from a short list prepared by White House staff (example)
- Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings and forwards nomination to the Senate floor (example and example)
- Senate votes as a whole to confirm the nominee, unless blocked by filibuster (example)
- Why has the confirmation process become so politicized?
- Is there a correlation between the party affiliation of the president and the voting habits of his appointees?
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