American District Courts Wield Too Much Power

The four judges assigned to the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii — three if you exclude a currently vacant seat — have jurisdiction over less than one half of one percent of the American population. Yet just one of them, Derrick Watson, was able to prevent President Trump’s revised travel ban from being applied across the nation. The previous iteration of the travel ban had been stymied by the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, which encompasses such diverse corners of America as foggy, liberal Olympia and misty, liberal Seattle. The district courts
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