Which of the Following Statements Is True Regarding the Supreme

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true regarding the Supreme Court?

• A) Ideology has little to do with the ways Supreme Court justices rule on issues.
• B) Whoever wins the 2016 presidential election will have little impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court.
• C) In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed two new justices to the Supreme Court .
• D) President Obama has thus far appointed one new justice to the Supreme Court, Elana Kagan.
• E) President Bush's appointees have generally viewed as sympathetic to the rights of the criminal defendant.

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