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After Midnight: The Circuit Judges and the Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801Jed Glickstein
Judiciary Act of 1801, U.S. law, passed in the last days of the John Adams administration (1797–1801), that reorganized the federal judiciary and established the first circuit judgeships in the country. The act and the ensuing last-minute appointment of new judges (the so-called “midnight...