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Judical branch (supreme court) - Coggle Diagram
Judical branch (supreme court)
Checks on the executive Branch
Can decaler predental actions uncosituional.
Checks on the Legsilative Branch.
Can declare acts of legislation unconsitutonal.
Sepreme Court Justices.
There are 9 justuses
Chief justice
John Roberts (2005 - present)
8 associate justicse
Serves for life to avoid political ties.
There are no soucific constitunal requrement to become a judge.
Court system
Supreme court
Located in Washinton DC
1,000s of cases are submited but only about 100 cases can be tried.
If the court declines to hear a case, the Court of Appeals decsionions final.
The Losing side of the Court of Appeals can appeal to the court.
Court of Appeals.
9th Circut Court in San Francisco, CA
13 Courts of Appeals
Each has a panel of judges
The judges can uphold the decisions of the lower courtand the outcome stands, or they can retry.
Distric courts
Each state has at least 1 of the 94 district courtss
District courts Monatana Helena, Billings, Great falls, Missola, and Butte.
Lower federal courts are divided on cases over which they have jusidction (or authority over).