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Video

U.S. Constitution: Definition and the Judicial Review of Marbury v. Madison
Learning Objective: 9-1: Explain how the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review was established.

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Judicial Elections
Learning Objective: 9-1: Explain how the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review was established; 9-2: Identify characteristics of the three eras of judicial review exercised by the Court.

Article III
Learning Objective: 9-3: Describe the structure of the federal judiciary.

Questions to consider:

1. How much power did the Congress have in designing the federal judiciary?
2. Where in Article III is the Court’s judicial review power outlined?
    

CNN: Inside the Supreme Court
Learning Objective: 9-3: Describe the structure of the federal judiciary.

Why Are Supreme Court Justices Appointed for Life?
Learning Objective: 9-3: Describe the structure of the federal judiciary.

Questions to consider:

1. Why did the Framers design the federal judiciary providing lifetime appointments for federal justices and judges?
2. How might judicial decision-making be different if federal judges were elected?
3. What do you think? Do you think the Supreme Court’s decision in the Affordable Care Act discussed in Chapter 8 might have come out differently if the Supreme Court justices were elected? Why or why not?
    

Judicial Activism Versus Judicial Restraint
Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss the Supreme Court’s place in the separation of powers and the role of principal–agent theory.

Questions to consider:

1. What do you think? Do you think that our personal opinion and preferences regarding a Supreme Court case sways whether we see the decision as an act of judicial activism or not?
    

Supreme Court Review 2015
Learning Objective: 9-6: Assess to what extent the Supreme Court’s judicial review is checked by other branches of the government.

Justice Clarence Thomas on Judicial Review
Learning Objective: 9-6: Assess to what extent the Supreme Court’s judicial review is checked by other branches of the government.
 

Web Resources

The Judicial Branch
Learning Objective: 9-1: Explain how the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review was established.

Racial and Gender Diversity of Obama Judicial Appointees
Learning Objective: 9-4: Relate the judicial decision-making process.

Questions to consider:

1. Why might it be desirable for presidents to nominate women and racial or ethnic minorities to the federal judiciary?
    

Supreme Court of the United States
Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss the Supreme Court’s place in the separation of powers and the role of principal–agent theory.