Questions

1. Some Democrats want Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign so President Biden can replace her with a younger judge before Trump takes office. Justice Sotomayor made history when she was confirmed to the Supreme Court as:
a) the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court
b) the first justice to have practiced law before being appointed to the Supreme Court
c) the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court
d) the first Supreme Court justice to endorse a presidential candidate

2. Even if Justice Sotomayor agreed to resign tomorrow, while the Democrats are still in the majority, the problems are all but which one:
a) they might not have enough time to get President Biden to name the new nominee and get through Senate confirmation hearings and a hold vote to confirm her
b) There is no guarantee that they would have the votes to get the new nominee confirmed
c) Should the nominee not get confirmed, Sotomayor would have to leave since she had resigned - then President Trump would be able to nominate a justices with a Republican-majority senate.
d) they can't fine any judges young enough who want to replace Sotomayor

3. The goal of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is to lower costs and to "confront the existential threat of the _______________" by giving billions of dollars in tax incentives to people and corporations to replace carbon emitting energy (gas, oil, coal) with "clean energy" (solar, wind, electric).
a) climate crisis
b) skyrocketing costs of home heating oil
c) many coal mines that have shut down
d) high price of gasoline

4. Trina Solar is one of several __________________ solar businesses setting up factories in the U.S. to benefit from the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Trina Solar was in line to receive close to $2 billion in tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.
a) Chinese
b) Canadian
c) Mexican
d) American

5. Former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who admitted he illegally posted classified military information to online chat rooms was sentenced to __________________ in prison by a Boston federal judge in a Boston federal court on Tuesday.
a) 1 year
b) 15 years
c) 50 years
d) 150 years

6. Teixeira plead guilty to six counts of violating __________________, acknowledging he was behind the yearlong distribution of dozens of classified government documents - some marked "top secret" — on Discord, a social media platform.
a) the Invasion of Privacy Act
b) the Digital Copyright Act
c) the Espionage Act
d) the Online Friends Classified Information Act

7. Union representatives from the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) walked away from contract negotiations with the port employers association this week over concerns about _________________.
a) healthcare benefits
b) automation
c) salary increases
d) company cars

8. Under the tentative deal with port owners, the ILA’s 45,000 dockworkers would see a __________________ pay raise over the next six-year contract.
a) 12%
b) 18%
c) 24%
d) 62%

9. President-elect Trump has asked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new commission named DOGE. DOGE stands for __________________.
a) Department of Government Efficiency
b) Department of Government Equity
c) Department of Government Equality
d) Department of Government Ethics

10. DOGE will do all but which one?
a) cut excess regulations
b) cut wasteful spending
c) pay Elon and Vivek $100 million per year
d) dismantle government bureaucracy