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.
This branch does this by hearing and evenually making decisions on various legal cases. The Judicial Branch is in charge of the court system. [ There are three different kinds of courts found in the federal court system. The lowest level is the district courts. The 2nd level is the court of appeals.