American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

THE AMERICAN LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM| 371 You Decide ADVICE AND CONSENT: PRINCIPLED OPPOSITION OR OBSTRUCTIONISM? The use of ...

372 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS 50 percent in recent years. When Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995, they stopped more t ...

ACCESS TO THE SUPREME COURT| 373 THE COURT SEES MORE OPPORTUNITIES... BUT HEARS FEWER CASES The Supreme Court’s workload ap ...

374 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS The Court’s Criteria How does the Court decide which cases to hear? Several factors come into play, ...

ACCESS TO THE SUPREME COURT| 375 ple is the line item veto, which Congress gave to President Clinton at the start of his second ...

376 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS HEARING CASES BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT A surprisingly small proportion of the Court’s time is actual ...

HEARING CASES BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT| 377 important cases, extra time may be granted. Usually there is only one lawyer for ea ...

378 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS a Protestant and Democrat from Kentucky.^37 It may not seem that the Court is sen- sitive to public ...

SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING| 379 ences include the justices’ preferences or ideologies, their stances on whether the Court sh ...

380 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS policy to protect the environment and workers, support national intervention in the states, and favo ...

SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING| 381 fl ag burning or defendants’ rights. Political liberals may be the opposite—calling for judi ...

382 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS confi rmed this to be largely the case,^41 especially in recent years when Supreme Court nominations ...

CONCLUSION| 383 a judge. Political process is also important for selecting judges and determining which cases the Supreme Court ...

384 CHAPTER 12|THE COURTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT AND POWERFUL FEDERAL JUDICIARY E Explain how the power of judicial ...

CONCLUSION| 385 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ...

386 CHAPTER 12 SUMMARY When hearing a case, the justices prepare by reading briefs before they hear the oral arguments. After or ...

STUDY GUIDE|^387 SUMMARY The Court makes decisions based on legal factors, such as legal precedent and informal legal norms, an ...

Civil Rights 13 388 ...

CRITICS OF A 2010 IMMIGRATION law in Arizona worried that it would subject Latinos to racial profi ling. One group opposing the ...

390 CHAPTER 13|CIVIL RIGHTS CHAPTER goals Describe the historical struggles groups have faced in winning civil rights. ¾ PAGES ...