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Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution designated the US Supreme Court the highest court in the country. This part of the document clearly authorizes Congress only to establish new courts "inferior to" the Supreme Court.
Article III, Section 1
The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoBecause the U.S. Constitution says so, in Article III.
Article III, Section 1
"The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office."
There has to be a supreme court or people would appeal endlessly to a higher court. There has to be a court where the decision is final and there is no higher court to appeal to. The supreme court is there to make a ruling that is the end all decision to stop endless time clogging up the overcrowded court system.
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No
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