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The '''United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit''' (in [[case citation]]s, '''D.C. Cir.''') is one of the thirteen [[United States Courts of Appeals]]. It has the smallest geographical jurisdiction of any of the U.S. federal appellate courts, and covers only one district court: the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia|U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]]. It meets at the [[E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse]], near [[Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C.]]

The D.C. Circuit's prominence and prestige among American federal courts is second only to the [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] because its geographic jurisdiction contains the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]] and the headquarters of many of the U.S. federal government's [[United_States_federal_executive_departments|executive departments]] and [[Independent agencies of the United States government|government agencies]], and therefore it is the main federal appellate court for many issues of American [[administrative law]] and [[United States constitutional law|constitutional law]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210212044732/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/02/the-second-highest-court-in-the-land.html </ref>  

Four of the nine justices on the Supreme Court as of [[2022]] were previously judges on the D.C. Circuit including [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[John Roberts]], along with associate justices [[Clarence Thomas]], [[Brett Kavanaugh]] and [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]]. Former justices [[Fred M. Vinson]], [[Wiley Blount Rutledge]], [[Warren E. Burger]], [[Antonin Scalia]], and [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], also served as judges on the D.C. Circuit before their appointments to the Supreme Court.

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