From: "chine.bleu" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Major win for Democracy!
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:37:49 -0700
Organization: semi-chaotic
Alan wrote:
>>
>> Then why are lower federal courts, which only exist at the whim of
>> Congress,
>> divided up into districts?
>
> Because people live in different parts of the country.
Under the Bill of Rights criminal trials have to be near the crime.
Without districts, the Supremes would be the only appellate court for
all trial courts. By making court districts Congress could insert an
intermediate layer of appellate courts between the Supremes and trial
courts.
Criminal trial decisions below the Supremes are restricted to that district.
Civil trials are wherever the plaintiff initiates the matter. Appeals
are still in the original district, but decisions do not have to be.
Defendants can span multiple districts, but you do not have pursue them
each district in a separate trial. One civil trial judgement follows the
plaintiff everywhere they are.
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