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CLEP US Government

Category - Courts

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The Supreme Court will hear a case:
  1. When any justice requests it.
  2. Whenever the Chief Justice wishes.
  3. When all of the justices unanimously agree to it.
  4. When any four of the justices agree to it.
  5. Whenever it is assigned to them by the President.
Explanation
Answer: D - The “rule of four” states that the Supreme Court will hear a case when four justices say they would like to hear it. This becomes very strategic because justices are more likely to want to hear a case if they think their side will win. The justices are also notoriously picky about which cases they hear, hearing fewer than 100 cases per year out of thousands that are appealed to them.
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