What causes partisan behavior on the courts?
A) Local party organizations tell judges how they are expected to decide cases.
B) There is no such thing as partisan behavior on courts.
C) An elected official is likely to nominate equal numbers of judges from each major party.
D) Judges are usually partisans, and they have some discretion in applying laws to specific cases.
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Q5: Coattail effects since the 1990s have:
A) weakened
Q6: A _ district is one in which
Q7: "Divided control of government":
A) means that it
Q8: The federal bureaucracy:
A) responds to partisan forces
Q9: Judges appointed by _ tend to be
Q11: Retention elections:
A) usually favor challengers rather than
Q12: In many European nations, people become judges
Q13: Generally, partisan influence in the executive branch
Q14: State court judges are often _.
A) appointed
Q15: Partisanship in the executive and the judiciary
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