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Domestic Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Definition of domestic policy | policies made for the people at home |
| Definition of landmark supreme court decision | cases that have national importance and change how domestic policy is followed |
| Definition of chief justice of the supreme court | head of the supreme court, larger part in selecting the cases the court hears |
| Definition of associate justices of the supreme court | eight, vote on the cases the court will hear and vote on the verdicts of the cases, write the opinion of the court or the dissenting opinion |
| Definition of civil liberties | individual rights protected from government overreach |
| Definition of an executive order | directives from the president to an executive department |
| Definition of presidential cabinet | fifteen positions that act as heads of executive departments |
| Definition of the speaker of the house | calls the house into session or recess, sets the schedule for votes and debates |
| Definition of Senate pro tempore | longest serving senator in the majority |
| Definition of senate minority leader | brings the demands of the minority to the majority |
| Definition of Senate majority leader | guides the majority policies |
| Definition of house minority whip | count votes for bills and gets more votes for the bills, has to get members of the majority to vote against their party |
| Definition of house majority whip | count votes for bills and gets more votes for the bills, have enough votes to pass bills |
| Definition of a presidential pardon | president can remove the sentence of a convicted person, stop the death penalty, or release people from jail |
| Who is the current house minority whip | Katherine Clark |
| Who is the current house majority whip | Tom Emmer |
| Who is the current Senate majority leader | John Thune |
| Who is the current Senate minority leader | Chuck Schumer |
| Who is the current Senate pro tempore | Charles Grassley |
| Who is the current speaker of the house | Mike Johnshon |
| Who is the current chief justice of the supreme court | John Roberts |
| Who are the current associate justices | Thomas, Kagan, Alito, Jackson, Barrett, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch |