Supreme Court

Question 1

First Chief Justice, wrote Federalist Papers

Answer 1

John Jay

Question 2

Longest serving, some say most influential, 1801-1835

Answer 2

John Marshall

Question 3

“Clear and present danger”, free speech, 1902-1932

Answer 3

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Question 4

Only Chief Justice who was President

Answer 4

William Howard Taft

Question 5

Champion of civil rights, presided over Brown v Board of Education, headed commission to investigate JFK assassination

Answer 5

Earl Warren

Question 6

First black justice, before being a SC justice he was chief counsel for NAACP and argued Brown v Board of Education

Answer 6

Thurgood Marshall

Question 7

First woman on supreme court

Answer 7

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 8

First Hispanic person on supreme court

Answer 8

Sonia Sotomayer

Question 9

Second woman on supreme court, from Brooklyn, “on the basis of sex”

Answer 9

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Question 10

1803: Established Supreme Court’s power to strike down unconstitutional laws

Answer 10

Marbury v Madison

Question 11

1857: Congress can NOT prohibit slavery, African Americans have no right to sue

Answer 11

Dred Scott v Sandford

Question 12

1954: Separate education facilities are inherently unequal

Answer 12

Brown v Board of Education

Question 13

1896: Upheld “separate but equal”

Answer 13

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 14

2015: Marriage equality

Answer 14

Obergefell v Hodges

Question 15

2022: Limited power of Clean Air Act

Answer 15

West Virgina v EPA