[supercat]

According to the constitution, those federal courts are established and serve at the whim of Congress. Congress should eliminate a handful of federal appealant courts just to get their attention.

I don't think the Constitution would allow Congress to simply get rid of judges.

On the other hand, they might decide that a 50-foot stretch of federal highway in middle-of-nowhere Alaska needs a special traffic court. They could even staff the court with the country's highest-paid traffic-court judges.

[kjam22]

I think the constitution does allow congress to establish and shut down federal courts.