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English
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The Role of the Article III Judge
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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2022
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61
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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233-244
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"Determining a judge’s role under the Constitution is central to the successful working of the separated powers which are the hallmark of the government the framers created. Some argue that they are a more important guarantor of our liberties than even the Bill of Rights and the Civil War Amendments. And yet we live in a time when the roles assigned to our public officials under the Constitution seem of less interest to people than whether those officials’ decisions align with the citizenry’s favored outcomes. We seem not to care as much about who decides what we want achieved—be it the president, the Congress, or the judiciary—as we care that it simply gets done! From 2005 to 2020, I was one of the 'Judges' on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, one of the 'inferior Courts' that the Constitution authorized Congress to create. In this essay, I will use my experience to attempt to explain my understanding of the nature of the 'judicial power' my colleagues and I were commissioned to use." [Author]