Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1. - What do legal approaches to Supreme Court decision making, suggest in the way the
court arrives at its decisions?
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2. - What forces shape judicial decisions according to the results of decades of research
by scholars?
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5. - What does the school of thought justices personal attitude maintain when a case
comes before the Court decision making?
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7. - Within the preference based category of the judicial role, how have scholars defined
this judicial role?
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10. - According to restraint-oriented justices, which is the proper role of the Court?
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11. - How do the authors Epstein and Walker restate the strategic argument of judicial
decisions?
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13. - Name the three forces that are considered of influence in the decision making of the
Court.
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14. Which is one of the fundamental differences between the Supreme Court and the
political branches?
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16. - Are justices once appointed, accountable to the public and required to undergo any
periodic reevaluation of their decisions?
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17. Some scholars claim that justices are not affected by public opinion, name the three
reasons they offer.
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18. The Court has always had a complex relationship with the president, what does this
relationship provide the president with?
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19. Name some direct links the president has with the Court.
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21. Is the executive branch, a direct or less source of influence of the Court?
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22. Can the Supreme Court, as a judicial body, implement or execute its own decisions?
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24. Can the SGs office convince the justices to adopt the position advocated by the SG?
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25. Name some examples of powers that Congress has over the Court that justices
cannot ignore.
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28. Besides trying to influence the Courts decisions, why else do they go to the
Supreme Court?
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