Sentence examples for for lower courts from inspiring English sources

Nominations for lower courts stir little public interest, despite their manifest importance.

"A divided court makes it hard for lower courts to know what the law is," Rosen said.

Justice Souter's densely worded, 45-page opinion contained numerous words of caution for lower courts in handling future cases.

Those judges also established new evidentiary rules for lower courts to follow, which strongly favored the government.

His picks for lower courts were typically both conservative and well-qualified, as was his first pick for the Supreme Court, John Roberts, now chief justice.

Mr. Sessions has since made a point of grilling the president's nominees for lower courts about whether they agree with Mr. Obama or with Justice Sotomayor.

For lower court judges, such a decision can be reviewed by a higher court, but the Supreme Court has no such review.

There's currently a filibuster rule in place for Supreme Court nominee and for bills (Democrats got rid of the rule for lower court nominees in 2013).

Democrats used the so-called nuclear option to change the rules for lower court nominees in 2013 after the nation's second-highest court, the appeals court for the federal circuit, was left four judges short of its normal complement because of GOP obstruction.

"My hope is that there'll be a return to the tradition of consulting both sides of the aisle and reaching a mainstream candidate ― acceptable in a bipartisan way," Blumenthal said . Arguably, Democratic senators do retain some say as to the names Trump might put forth for lower court vacancies.

Most of its cases come to it via petitions for such writs, which higher courts use to request case files for review from lower courts.       .