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How Mitch Rigged the Courts

Strict Scrutiny

CHAPTER

The Lower Federal Courts

The lower federal courts refer to 13 appellat courts and the 94 district courts. And so just for contexts or folks, we often focus on the supreme court that hears less than a hundred cases a year. The district courts here, over 400 thousand combined, and the apellet courts here, around 50 thousand combined. So it's where most of the action is actually taking place.

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