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TEST BANK American Constitutional Law 18th Edition
Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

CHAP 00: INTRODUCTION: A POLITICAL SUPREME COURT

Multiple Choice
1. What Supreme Court justice served longer than any other member of the Court? ____
a. John Marshall
b. Stephen J. Field
c. John Paul Stephens
*d. William O. Douglas

2. What Supreme Court justice in 1969 became the only member of the Court ever to
resign under fire? _____
a. William O. Douglas
*b. Abe Fortas
c. Hugo Black
d. Gerald Ford

3. Which of the following was not a Supreme Court nominee of Richard Nixon? _____
*a. Earl Warren
b. Harry Blackmun
c. Harrold Carswell
d. Clement Haynsworth

4. What justice retired at about the same time as John Marshall Harlan? _____
a. Warren Burger
b. William O. Douglas
*c. Hugo Black
d. Sandra Day O’Connor

5. What president nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court? _____
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Bill Clinton
*c. Ronald Reagan
d. Richard Nixon

6. Whose retirement created the vacancy eventually filled by Sandra Day O’Connor? ___
a. Ronald Reagan
*b. Potter Stewart
c. William O. Douglas
d. Harold Burton

7. _____ became chief justice soon after Earl Warren.
*a. Warren Burger
b. John Roberts

, c. Hugo Black
d. John Stevens

8. Whom did President Reagan first nominate to replace Justice Lewis Powell? ____
a. Harry Blackmun
*b. Robert Bork
c. John Paul Stevens
d. Stephen Breyer

9. Douglas Ginsburg was nominated to fill whose seat on the Supreme Court? ____
a. Warren Burger
b. Gerald Ford
*c. Lewis Powell
d. Sandra Day O’Connor

10. Who was the first Supreme Court nominee of President George H. W. Bush? ____
a. Clarence Thomas
b. William J. Brennan
*c. David J. Souter
d. Sandra Day O’Connor

11. Who was the last Supreme Court nominee of President George H. W. Bush? ____
*a. Clarence Thomas
b. William J. Brennan
c. David J. Souter
d. Thurgood Marshall

12. Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court? ____
a. Clarence Thomas
b. William J. Brennan
*c. Thurgood Marshall
d. Sandra Day O’Connor

13. Through 2016, how many African Americans have sat on the Supreme Court? ____
a. one
*b. two
c. three
d. four
14. Who nominated Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court? ____
*a. Ronald Reagan
b. Bill Clinton
c. George W. Bush
d. Richard Nixon

15. Who was not a nominee of Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court? ____
*a. Ruth Ginsburg

, b. Robert Bork
c. Douglas Ginsburg
d. William Rehnquist

16. Who was a nominee of President Obama to the Supreme Court? ____
a. Samuel Alito
b. Antonin Scalia
*c. Elena Kagan
d. John Roberts

17. Who was the first Italian American named to the Supreme Court? ____
a. Sonia Sotomayor
b. Samuel Alito
c. Benjamin Cardozo
*d. Antonin Scalia

18. Through 2021, who is the most recent nominee to the Supreme Court not to be
confirmed? ____
*a. Merrick Garland
b. Robert Bork
c. Abe Fortas
d. Harriet Miers
19. Who was President Trump’s first appointment to the Supreme Court?
a. Elena Kagan
*b. Neil Gorsuch
c. John Roberts
d. Amy Coney Barrett

Essay Questions

1. What factors in recent decades have presidents seemed most often to take into
account when making nominations for the Supreme Court?

2. In recent decades, why have some nominees met with widespread approval while
others have stirred up much opposition?

3. What is the “nuclear option” in connection with the treatment of judicial
nominees in the United States Senate?

4. How did diversity jurisdiction affect the work of the Supreme Court especially in
the nineteenth century?

5. What accounts for the failure of Harriet Miers to secure a seat on the Supreme
Court?

, 6. Why did Samuel Alito encounter greater opposition than John Roberts in the
Senate when nominated for the Supreme Court?

7. What changes have occurred over the past 200 years in the types of cases the
Supreme Court decides?

8. What difference does it make that the Court’s jurisdiction today is almost entirely
discretionary?

9. On the day that President Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Ginsburg to the Supreme
Court, one legal scholar (who had been dean of a prominent law school and a
university president) stated on the PBS NewsHour that Ronald Reagan was the
first president to have “politicized” Supreme Court appointments. Is this an
accurate statement? Why?
10. Aside from serving on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
what other professional experience did Ruth Bader Ginsburg have before her
appointment to the Supreme Court?

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