The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 "Circuits". Eleven of the circuits are numbered "First" through "Eleventh" and cover geographic areas of the United States and hear appeals from the U.S. district courts within their borders. The District of Columbia Circuit covers only Washington,DC. The Federal Circuit hears appeals from federal courts across the United States in cases involving certain specialized areas of law. The courts of appeals also hear appeals from some administrative agency decisions and rulemaking,with by far the largest share of these cases heard by the D.C. Circuit. Appeals from decisions of the courts of appeals can be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Stephen Fain Williams was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit until his death from complications of COVID-19 on August 7,2020.
David Bryan Sentelle is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Arthur Raymond Randolph is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the Court in 1990 and assumed senior status on November 1,2008.
Kenneth Francis Ripple is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Gladys Kessler was a United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia.
Sandra Segal Ikuta is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
David Frank Hamilton is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. On March 17,2009,he became President Barack Obama's first judicial nominee when he was named for a seat on the Seventh Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate on November 19,2009,in a 59–39 vote.
Janice Rogers Brown is an American jurist. She served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2017 and before that,Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005. She is a member of the Federalist Society and frequently features at events hosted by the organization.
Wilfred Feinberg was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Thomas Beall Griffith is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Currently,he is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School,a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University (BYU),and Special Counsel in the Washington,D.C. office of the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Karen LeCraft Henderson is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Donald Francis McGahn II is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Donald Trump,from the day of Trump's inauguration through October 17,2018,when McGahn resigned. Previously,McGahn served on the Federal Election Commission for over five years. In November 2019,McGahn received a court order to testify before the U.S House of Representatives. In August 2020,the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 7–2 that the House can sue him to comply.
Detainees held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps have initiated both individual and widespread hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay,and camp medical authorities have initiated force-feeding programs.
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25,2022,and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court.
The Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikes were a series of prisoner protests at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The first hunger strikes began in 2002 when the camp first opened,but the secrecy of the camp's operations prevented news of those strikes from reaching the public. The first widely reported hunger strikes occurred in 2005.
Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard,known professionally as Nina Pillard,is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a judge,Pillard was a tenured law professor at Georgetown University.
Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab also known as Abu Wa'el Dhiab was born in Lebanon. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp,in Cuba until he was released to Uruguay. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 722. Dhiab was one of the Guantanamo hunger strikers.
Britt Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
In re:Don McGahn is a U.S. constitutional case lawsuit (1:19-cv-02379) filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by the House Judiciary Committee to compel the testimony of former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn,Jr. under subpoena. McGahn was put under subpoena to testify regarding his knowledge of the Russia investigation and Mueller Report and whether President Donald Trump's actions could constitute obstruction of justice. The case gained importance as the House launched impeachment proceedings against Trump regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal.
