If you are fourteen years old and commit a violent crime in Texas, you can be tried in the criminal justice system as an adult

A(n) __________ brief provides legal rationale of an interest group in hopes of swaying the Supreme Court's decision

a. amicus curiae b. habeas corpus c. outsider d. coram nobis

In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012), the Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to expand their Medicaid coverage because

A. the provision left them without a "genuine choice" as to whether to comply. B. health care is purely a state issue. C. health care is purely a federal issue. D. the provision violated the Constitution by not requiring more state funding for the program. E. the provision created a tax that was not permissible.