Author Question: Presidential nominations to the Supreme Court were approved as a matter of course A) until the ... (Read 53 times)

misspop · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

Presidential nominations to the Supreme Court were approved as a matter of course

A) until the case of McCulloch v. Maryland.
B) after the controversial rejection of Robert Bork.
C) in the first half of the twentieth century.
D) because of the stare decisis.
E) because of the amount of media coverage surrounding nominations.

Question 2

A person cannot be tried twice for the same crime in either state or federal court, a practice known as

A) dissenting opinion.
B) writ of certiorari.
C) statutory interpretation.
D) criminal code.
E) double jeopardy.