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.
1 Every state has two court systems: the federal court system, which is the same in all fifty states, and the state court system, which varies slightly in each state. 2  Federal courts are exclusive; they adjudicate only federal matters. 3  State courts are nonexclusive; they can adjudicate state or federal matters.