FORTY YEARS AGO last Sunday, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington DC in a botched operation that would spark a chain of events that two years later would see Richard Nixon resign as the 37th president of the United States.
District Courts and Circuit Courts (or Federal courts of appeals) are part of the federal court system. District courts are lower and have the responsibility for holding trials, while circuit courts are appellate courts that do not hold trials but only hear appeals for cases decided by the lower court.
State judicial branches cover laws of the state. Each judicial branch has a specific order in which a case is to be heard. The following is the hierarchy of the federal judicial branch: 1. District Courts â District courts are courts of first impression, which means that they are the first to hear a new case. This type of court will perform the trial, with an initial decision made by a jury or possibly a judge. 2.