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(Less so on lower courts).
However, Peaker says the judge's finding is binding on lower courts and tribunals.
More controversial is the súmula vinculante, which would make Supreme Court decisions binding on lower courts.
On the Supreme Court and on lower courts, the differences between conservative and liberal federal judges can lead to dramatic differences in results.
The expansion of the court might also allow Congress to force justices to return to the worthwhile practice of sitting on lower courts for periods of time.
BW is claiming the decision will be binding on lower courts and should therefore guide the decisions of circuit judges in possible future cases.
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Frustrated Hopes Aides to Mr. Obama had initially planned to move more assertively on lower-court judges.
Instead of filibustering only in "extraordinary circumstances," Republicans routinely insisted on sixty-vote majorities to end debate on lower-court judicial nominees.
This, in turn, prompted Senate Democrats, led by Harry Reid, to invoke the "nuclear option" in late 2013, which barred filibusters on lower-court judges.
It is one of the quirks of the federal judiciary, however, that the Code is binding on lower-court judges but, technically, does not apply to Supreme Court Justices.
In the last days of his tenure as Majority Leader of the Democrats, Harry Reid grew so frustrated with Republican obstruction that he changed the Senate rules, doing away with filibusters on lower-court judicial and Administration appointees, like cabinet members.
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