Ever think YOU could do a better job than some of the judges we have sitting on the bench? Well you can take the Clinton-era placement exam and see how you do!
_______(a) Uphold the law and find in favor of the military.
_______(b) Find the military guilty of violating the sailor's civil rights.
_______The fact that the sailor violated the law is irrelevant.
_______(c) Not only do you MAKE the military keep him,
_______you also issue an order that the Department of Defense
_______make that man a Rear Admiral!
_______
QUESTION TWO: A man owns a plot of desert land that he intends to convert to a concrete and steel storage facility. An environmental group is suing to prevent construction on the grounds that if there were water in the area, then the property would be a wetland and subject to the state's environmental protection laws. You should:
_______(a) Uphold the owner's property rights.
_______(b) Issue an injunction against the owner
_______until further study can be made on the matter.
_______Sometime in the year 2013.
_______(c) Order the state seizure of land from this fascist!
_______
QUESTION THREE: A church refuses to marry a homosexual "couple," citing religious objections. You should:
_______(a) Follow the law and recognize that the State has no
_______say in matters of religion (seperation of church and state).
_______(b) Place an injuction on the church, forbidding anyone
_______to enter until it consents to the marriage.
_______(c) Seize the church from the reactionaries and turn it
_______into a gay adoption center.
_______
QUESTION FOUR: A city has passed an ordnance forbidding vagrants (AKO "the homeless") from urinating in public. The ACLU has filed an appeal to this law. You should:
_______(a) Recognize that the City Government has authority
_______to make laws in the City's own interests and that these
_______laws are valid.
_______(b) Declare the law invalid. Also declare the City Government
_______to be made up of members of the Great Right Wing Conspiracy.
_______(c) Pass an injunction that not only allows urination in public
_______but encourages it.
_______
QUESTION FIVE: A high school student has sued her school because she has received nothing but "C"s and "D"s during her four years there. this has virtually eliminated her chances to go to college. You will:
_______(a) Uphold the law and recognize that the student,
_______not the school, is responsible for her predicament.
_______(b) Place an injuction requiring the school to
_______give her a diploma and a record stating her GPA is 3.0.
_______(c) Order the school to declare her and the top 50% of her
_______class "valedictorians" and set their GPA at 5.0.
_______
QUESTION SIX: A man suspected of being a member of a terrorist logistics cell has asked to have charges dropped against him, even though the Attorney General has strong evidence that the man has committed perjury and knew two of the 911 attackers. You should:
_______(a) Allow the suspect to be held until trial due to
_______national security interests.
_______(b) Dismiss evidence of perjury as "irrelevant," in accordance
_______with Clinton vs Starr.
_______(c) Let the guy go. After all, you were young once yourself.
_______
QUESTION SEVEN: A man has filed to have the Pledge of Allegience removed from U.S. schools, under the Seperation of Church and State Clause. His daughter is seven years old and has the choice to say the Pledge or not, as she desires (she does). You will:
_______(a) Follow the law and recognize that the Clause does not apply
_______in this case.
_______(b) Order the school to pray to Allah, Buddha, Ra, and Chulutha,
_______in addition to the Pledge.
_______(c) Order all schools every where to stop saying the Pledge.
_______And institute burning at the stake for those who do.
_______
QUESTION EIGHT: In a national election for President, the votes in a state have been disputed. The state's Attorney General, in accordance with state law, declares the REPUBLICAN candidate to be the winner on November 20th, because that candidate has won the most votes. This will make the REPUBLICAN candidate the winner of the elction. The DEMOCRATIC candidate sues for a stay of execution until vote recount is complete, even though two previous recounts have failed to give him a majority. You should:
_______(a) Follow the law and allow the Attorney General to
_______execute her duties.
_______(b) Institute a one-week stay period, until the current
_______recount is done.
_______(c) Order the recounts to continue until the rightful
_______candidate (the DEMOCRAT) has won.
_______
QUESTION NINE: A state has instituted a school voucher system which gives parents tax incentives if they place their children in private schools. This money comes from the public school system. The NEA has sued to stop the program. You will:
_______(a) Uphold the law and recognize that parents have
_______the right to provide for the best education they can
_______get for their children.
_______(b) Make the parents pay for both the public AND private programs.
_______(c) Declare it illegal to take money from corrupt and failing
_______schools to those that work.
_______
QUESTION TEN: A neighbor of a man who "owns" a cat (named Twinkie) has sued the man for not allowing the cat to have outside priveleges. Under the direction of PETA, the neighbor contends that the cat is not in fact "owned" and that it has certain inalienable rights, like that of association. You:
_______(a) Find PETA and the neighbor nuts. Animals do not
_______possess rights because they cannot knowingly enter
_______into binding contracts.
_______(b) Order the "owner" to provide a cat door.
_______(c) Declare an end to "pets" and announce that all liberated
_______creatures are now "companion animals" with
_______extensive rights.
_______
If you answered all of the questions "C", then you would have definitely been Supreme Court material (provided you were the Minority of the Month). If you answered MOST of the questions "C" and up to four of the questions "B", then you would qualify as a Circuit Court Judge. And if you answered ANY of the questions "A", then you can forget about even getting a hearing for a judicial appointment!
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