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Judicial Branch - Coggle Diagram
Judicial Branch
Supreme court justices
9 justices
Chief justice
8 associate justice
John Roberts
There is no requirments needed
Serve for life to avoid political ties
Court system
Court of appeals
9th circuit court in San Francisco
13 courts of appeals
Each has a panel of judges to decide if courts were tried correctly
The judges can uphold the decisions of the lower court or they can be retried
Districts courts
Each state has 1 of 94 district courts
Montana has a district court in Great falls, Missoula, Butte, Helena, and Billings
Lower courts are divided on cases on which they have jurisdiction
Supreme court
Washington D.C
Thousands of cases are supplied, but 100 are tried
Can appeal to the supreme court
Checks on executive
Can declare presidential actions unconstitutional
Checks on Legislative