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Scalia: Courts flooded with ‘nickel and dime criminal cases’

Scalia: Courts flooded with ‘nickel and dime criminal cases’

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Justice Antonin Scalia

There are problems with the nation’s federal court system.

And according to Justice Antonin Scalia, one of those problems is a flood of petty criminal cases – better suited for state courts – that have turned the U.S. Supreme Court into a “court of criminal appeals.”

Federal courts are clogged with “”nickel and dime criminal cases,” Scalia told attendees of an American Bar Association meeting in New Orleans on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

He called the situation “”probably regrettable”” and added that it doesn’t reflect “”what the federal courts were set up for.”

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