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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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CFIF Supreme Court Quiz Print
By CFIF Staff
Tuesday, September 27 2016

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Take CFIF’s 10-Question Supreme Court Quiz and test your knowledge of our Nation’s Highest Court.

(Answer key may be found at the bottom)


1. How many Justices comprise the U.S. Supreme Court?

a. Five
b. Six
c. Nine
d. Eleven


2. How many times has Congress changed the number of justices comprising the U.S. Supreme Court?

a. Three times
b. Five times
c. Six times
d. Never


3. Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?

a. John Jay 
b. John Marshall
c. John Roberts
d. John Paul Stevens


4. Which President’s Supreme Court nominee was the first to fail Senate confirmation?

a. George W. Bush
b. George Washington
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Ronald Reagan


5. How many U.S. Presidents have also served on the Supreme Court?

a. None
b. One
c. Two
d. Three


6. Who was first President to nominate a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court?

a. Barack Obama
b. Ronald Reagan
c. George W. Bush
d. Bill Clinton


7. How many Supreme Court Justices have subsequently run for President of the United States?

a. None
b. One
c. Three 
d. Five


8. Which U.S. President had the most Supreme Court nominations fail to receive Senate confirmation?

a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Franklin D. Roosevelt
c. John Tyler
d. John F. Kennedy


9. Who is the longest-serving Supreme Court Justice to date?

a. John Marshall 
b. William O. Douglas
c. Thurgood Marshall
d. John Paul Stevens


10. Who is the current Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?

a. Samuel Alito
b. William Rehnquist
c. John Roberts
d. Clarence Thomas

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“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”
-- Marbury v. Madison, 1803


Answers: 1(c); 2(c); 3(a); 4(b); 5(b); 6(b); 7(b); 8(c); 9(b); 10 (c)

 

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