The lower courts are on the chopping block

Both Congress and the Supreme Court seem willing to help

We need our lower federal courts.

All of the facts in a case developed by trial courts. All the witnesses, the documents, the cross-examination, the jury verdicts occur before those judges.

The other courts hear appeals, meaning they are confined to looking at the record created in the trial courts.

At the federal level, the trial courts are called U.S. Di…