Report Claims 9.6% Of Recent College Grads Think Judge Judy Is On U.S. Supreme Court
Judge Judith Sheindlin has held some high-profile positions in her career over the years – having been appointed by Mayor Ed Koch as a Manhattan Criminal Court judge in 1982, and rising to supervising judge of Manhattan Family Court in 1986.
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A total of 9.6 percent of the college graduates marked that Sheindlin was on the Supreme Court, the report said.
Further, only 20.6 percent – and 28.4 percent of college graduates – of all respondents could identify James Madison as the father of the U.S. Constitution, while more than 60 percent of all respondents and 59.2 percent of college graduates thought the answer was Thomas Jefferson, the report said. The report pointed out that Jefferson was ambassador to France at the time and did not attend the Constitutional Convention.
Nearly 60 percent of graduates also did not know how Americans amend the Constitution, 40 percent did not know that Congress has the power to declare war, and almost half did not know U.S. senators are elected to six-year terms and representatives to two-year terms, the report said.
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