AP Gov SCOTUS duel

McCulloch v. Maryland impact established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case

Engel v. Vitale clause 1st Amendment Establishment Clause

McDonald v. Chicago question Does the 2nd Amendment apply to state and local governments through the 14th Amendment's due process clause and thus prevent states from banning gun ownership?

Baker v. Carr ruling 6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Brown v. Board of Education question

Roe v. Wade ruling 7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion

McCulloch v. Maryland facts Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)

McDonald v. Chicago ruling 5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states

New York Times v. US facts The Nixon administration attempted to prevent several newspapers from publishing materials belonging to a classified Defense Department study, known as the Pentagon Papers, detailing US actions in Vietnam. The president argued that prior restraint was necessary to protect national security. NYTimes sued on 1st amendment grounds (1971)

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling

New York Times v. US impact protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing

McDonald v. Chicago impact states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms

Does the 6th Amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases extend to defendants in state courts, even in cases in which the death penalty is not at issue?

Brown v. Board of Education clause

Roe v. Wade facts

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

Shaw v. Reno facts

5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional

Marbury v. Madison ruling 4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first

Public schools in New York began the school day by having students to recite a nondenominational prayer each morning. Engel, a parent at the school sued the district for violating the establishment clause (1962)

Schenck v. US impact until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions

Marbury v. Madison clause

McDonald v. Chicago clause 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause

Citizens United v. FEC impact used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech

Shaw v. Reno clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder facts

Commerce Clause

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

Roe v. Wade clause a bunch, 9th implied rights, 14th due process especially

6:3 for NYTimes, except in the case of a Clear and Present danger the US government does not have the power of prior restraint over the press

5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states

Baker v. Carr impact

Marbury v. Madison ruling

Does a law that limits the ability of corporations and labor unions to spend their own money to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate violate the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech?

Marbury v. Madison clause

6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Gideon v. Wainwright question

Schenck v. US clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

Brown v. Board of Education question Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?

New York Times v. US impact

McCulloch v. Maryland facts Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)

Brown v. Board of Education ruling 9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?

Citizens United v. FEC ruling 5:4 for Citizens United, political ads by corporations/nonprofits are protected under free speech, giving money to a campaign doesn't necessarily mean that they will be biased towards you

Gideon v. Wainwright clause 6th amendment, right to an attorney

Marbury v. Madison ruling 4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first

US v. Lopez question Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?

Gideon v. Wainwright impact Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case

Tinker v. Des Moines impact students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

Shaw v. Reno question Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?

7:0 for Yoder, forcing people to go to school despite a religious disagreement violated the free exercise clause

During World War I, Schenck, secretary of the socialist party, mailed a pamphlets to draftees declaring that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude meant that the draft was unconstitutional. He was charged with violation of the Espionage Act and sued saying that he was just exercising free speech (1919)

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

Roe v. Wade question Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?

McDonald v. Chicago question

Shaw v. Reno facts In an attempt to create an additional legislative district with a majority of African-American voters, the state of North Carolina created a district connecting pockets of minority voters by nothing more than the width of the freeway. Shaw, a republican from NC, sued the US Attorney General who had forced the changes on 14th amendment violations (1993)

McCulloch v. Maryland impact established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

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