AP Gov SCOTUS duel

Shaw v. Reno ruling

Does the federal government have implied powers?

McCulloch v. Maryland impact

14th amendment equal protection clause

McDonald v. Chicago clause

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

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

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)

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

McDonald v. Chicago facts

Citizens United v. FEC clause

Shaw v. Reno impact claims of racial redistricting must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny. laws that results in classification by race must have a compelling state interest or a clear 14th amendment violation

6th amendment, right to an attorney

5:4 for Lopez, the state cannot regulate guns on school property under the commerce clause

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

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

For religious reasons Amish families refused to send their children to high school citing a religious exemption, violating a Wisconsin law and were fined. They sued the state for violating their freedom of religion (1972)

1st Amendment Establishment Clause

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)

New York Times v. US question can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?

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?

Schenck v. US question

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling 7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights

Marbury V. Madison impact established judicial review

Citizens United v. FEC facts BCRA law banned Citizens United from showing an ad they made casting Hilary Clinton in a negative light calling it "electioneering" and thus against the BCRA. Citizens United appealed that the ad fell under their right to free speech and thus the BCRA was unconstitutional (2010)

Brown v. Board of Education impact

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

Engel v. Vitale impact

New York Times v. US impact

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

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

Baker v. Carr clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

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

Marbury V. Madison impact

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling 7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights

Schenck v. US facts 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)

Shaw v. Reno ruling

Tinker v. Des Moines clause

Tinker v. Des Moines facts

2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause

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?

US v. Lopez clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder impact religion trumps schooling

Marbury v. Madison question

McCulloch v. Maryland clause necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

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

Shaw v. Reno facts

appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III

Engel v. Vitale ruling 6:1 for Engel, since it was a public school, it does violate the establishment clause

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

Engel v. Vitale impact

9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

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

Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?

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

Does banning the wearing of armbands in public school, as a form of protest, violate the students' freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment?

Engel v. Vitale facts 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)

Roe v. Wade impact Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion

McCulloch v. Maryland impact

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