Basically, what is the point of lower courts if stuff can be appealed and appealed until they reach the SCOTUS. Why not just have the case go straight to SCOTUS?
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The Supreme Court and other appeals courts don’t hear every case that’s appealed to them. They can just decide that the lower court got it right and it’s not worth trying it again. If there are several similar cases and the appeals courts are all ruling the same way, the Supreme Court usually won’t take up the case. Only a few thousand cases are appealed all the way to the Supreme Court and they only hear about a hundred of them.
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