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Understanding the Impact of Federal Judges in the United States
President Donald Trump is stacking courts with his judicial picks.
by Karen Clopton
Nov 10, 2017 6:13PM EST

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In this explainer, Karen Valentia Clopton explains the impact of federal judges in the United States. Clopton was the chief administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission from 2009 to 2017, serves on the Board of Governors for the National Association of the Administrative Law Judiciary, and is the winner of the American Bar Association’s 2017 Robert P. Yegge Award for excellence in judicial administration.

What kind of society do you want to live in? If you mention words like “equal” and “fair,” then you can imagine the importance of people using their right to vote, and the importance of our judicial system. Congress passes laws, but the Supreme Court and lower federal courts determine whether those laws are constitutional. Under the American system of democracy, a well-qualified federal judiciary is one of the most important checks on the legislative branch and on unbridled power by the executive branch. Yet both the legislative branch and the executive branch have a direct impact on the composition of the judiciary.
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