The Judicial Branch

Judges don’t make campaign promises, so this branch gets a different card — not a lesser one. What a justice leaves behind is sworn testimony: what they told the Senate, under oath, about precedent, recusal, and how they would approach the job. The judicial record card puts that testimony next to how they actually ruled. What they said, what they did — same receipt as every other branch.

The branch opens at the top on purpose. The 800-plus lower federal court seats are listed in the seat tree with their meters closed: the format has to prove itself on nine seats everyone can name before it scales to judges most people have never heard of.

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The nine seats

All nine seats are filled; the Court’s composition is unchanged since June 30, 2022, per supremecourt.gov.

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