Editing Judiciary (section)

=== United States ===

{{main|Federal judiciary of the United States|List of courts of the United States}}
 
[[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] justices are appointed by the [[President of the United States]] and approved by the [[United States Senate]]. The Supreme Court justices serve for life term or until retirement. The Supreme Court is located in [[Washington, D.C.]] The [[Federal judiciary of the United States|United States federal court system]] consists of 94 [[United States federal judicial district|federal judicial districts]]. The 94 districts are then divided up into [[United States courts of appeals|twelve regional circuits.]] The United States has five different types of courts that are considered subordinate to the Supreme Court: [[United States bankruptcy court]]s, [[United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]], [[United States Court of International Trade]], [[United States courts of appeals]], and [[United States district court]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Judicial Branch|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/our-government/judicial-branch|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=20 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Federal Courts|url=http://www.uscourts.gov/FederalCourts.aspx|access-date=20 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422070440/http://www.uscourts.gov/FederalCourts.aspx|archive-date=22 April 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

Immigration courts are not part of the judicial branch; immigration judges are employees of the [[Executive Office for Immigration Review]], part of the [[United States Department of Justice]] in the executive branch.

Each [[U.S. state|state]], [[District of Columbia|district]] and [[territories of the United States|inhabited territory]] also has its own [[state court (United States)|court system]] operating within the legal framework of the respective jurisdiction, responsible for hearing cases regarding [[state law (United States)|state and territorial law]]. All these jurisdictions also have their own [[state supreme courts|supreme courts]] (or equivalent) which serve as the highest courts of law within their respective jurisdictions.