Quotes about Circuit Court

Brett Kavanaugh

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It's been decided by the Supreme Court.

Ted Cruz

Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

Eugene Scalia

The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.

Michael K. Simpson

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

Andrew Jackson

The extension of the judiciary system of the United States is deemed to be one of the duties of the Government. One-fourth of the States in the Union do not participate in the benefits of a circuit court. To the States of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, admitted into the Union since the present judicial system was organized, only a district court has been allowed.

Surprising to many is the fact that the Federal Courts did not automatically get established when a new state joined the Union. Congress had to legally reorganize the Federal Court structure and appropriate additional money. In addition Senators then were elected by the State Legislatures who were not anxious to have any Federal Legal presence in their state if they could avoid it, as it might interfere with their State Court system. The Constitution provided for the Federal Courts but left it up to Congress to decide on all the details. It would not be until after the Civil War that the Federal Courts were very active in all States.

James Forman Jr.

I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.

Mitch McConnell

The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.

Merrick Garland

The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.

Circuit Court Quotes