PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ripeness, Appellate Jurisdiction, Mootness
15 Oct 2015
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Chapter three- nature and scope of federal judicial power. 2 systems- federal and state systems each has their own executive, legislative, and judicial branch: most state judicial branches are set up similarly to the federal system. If a us constitution question arises it came jump from state to federal. Judicial power and the constitution: article iii. The federal judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court and such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time abolish: article iii courts. Identified in article iii of the constitution but the only one specified in the. Article iii judges are nominated by the president, approved by the senate, and are appointed for life, with good behavior. They can be removed by impeachment: article i courts. In addition to article iii courts there are hundreds of article i courts. These are administrative courts crated by congress under power in article i.
