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Questions

1. Which of the following statements is not accurate?

To maintain the neutrality of the federal judiciary, interest groups are prohibited from lobbying either for or against judicial nominations

On occasion, state and local party leaders are consulted in the selection of federal district court judges.

By custom, the Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on all judicial nominations.

The final step in the judicial appointment process for federal judges is a majority vote by the Senate

2. Which of the following statements is not accurate?

Federal courts do not render advisory opinions

Justiciability refers to the question of whether judges ought to hear or refrain from hearing certain cases

The concept of standing deals with the matter of who may bring litigation to court

Courts ordinarily will hear a case that has become moot.

3. Currently, about ____ percent of state trial court judges are female

seven

fifteen

twenty-eight

forty-eight

4. Which of the following statements is not accurate?

Since 1984, federal judges have been permitted to retire with full pay and benefits under what is called the rule of eighty, that is, when the sum of a judge's age and number of years on the bench is eighty.

Approximately 40 percent of the nation's more than twelve hundred working judges are on "senior status" and have thus opted not to retire.

Some credible evidence suggests that judges often time their resignations to occur when their party controls the presidency so they will be replaced by a jurist of similar political and judicial orientation.

The rule of eighty refers to the custom of Supreme Court justices retiring when they reach the age of eighty, regardless of their health.

5. ____ constitute about 85 percent of all courts in the United States

Trial courts of limited jurisdiction

Trial courts of general jurisdiction

Intermediate appellate courts

Courts of last resort