Across
- 2. The concept that judges can adapt the meaning of the Constitution to contemporary realities
- 3. Tradition in which a senator form the same state as a judicial nominee and from the same political party as the president can block the nominee and expect no opposition from other senators
- 5. A minor criminal case punishable by one year or less of prison time
- 7. Previous court rulings on a given legal question
- 8. Lawyers provided to defendants who cannot afford to hire a lawyer
Down
- 1. District-court officials who are appointed for eight years and hear some of the early hearings of criminal trials as well as some misdemeanor and civil cases
- 4. A legal process by which citizens who cannot pay money they owe others can receive court protection and assistance in settling their financial problems
- 6. Panels and citizens that hear evidence of a possible crime and recommend whether the evidence is sufficient to file criminal charges