Which of the following would be a conservative ruling made by the Rehnquist Court?
A) It gave school officials the right to censor school newspapers and plays.
B) It made it more difficult for workers to sue employers for discrimination.
C) It ruled that police without a warrant could search through trash that people leave outside their homes to be collected.
D) All of the above.
E) Only B and C are correct.
Question -2-Which of the following would be considered a liberal ruling made by the Burger Court?
A) It legalized abortion.
B) It declined to stop publication of the Pentagon Papers.
C) It extended the right of counsel to poor defendants even in misdemeanor cases.
D) All of the above.
E) Only A and B are correct.
Question -3-In which of the following areas did the Burger Court extend and even broaden the decisions made by the Warren Court?
A) Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
B) the rights of criminal defendants
C) desegregation and privacy
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Question -4-What type of a judge did Richard Nixon want to appoint to the United States Supreme Court?
A) a judicial activist
B) a strict constructionist
C) a progressive
D) a Harvard law professor
E) a liberal
Question -5-Which of the following was not a strict constructionist?
A) Earl Warren
B) Warren Burger
C) Clement Haynesworth
D) none of them was a strict constructionist
E) all of them were strict constructionists
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