constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme ... rather than appellate hierarchy; Virginia, for example, had four “supreme” courts, with a complex of relations among them.) ...

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress has broad authority over the federal courts Tuesday, as lawmakers ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday drew attention to Congress’s power over the federal judiciary as Republicans plot how ...

The second part relates to the Supreme Court’s supervisory authority over inferior courts. Regarding the range of the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction, David Engdahl has argued that the use of the ...

The lower court, which are issuing unappealing rulings, are inverting the Article III hierarchy. This Inferior Court Supremacy, as I call it, cannot stand. More on that topic in another post.

The Constitution called for the creation of the Supreme Court, but inferior courts were left to Congress's discretion. From early on in the Republic, it was understood that the Supreme Court ...