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From Wikpedia:
What am I missing here? Clearly both cannot be true at the same time.
EDIT: nevermind, I found the answer further down on the page:
US fed doesn't recognize basic ethics laws, how unsurprising
A boring dystopia
But the types of cases are different. Civil cases are state cases and handle harm, murder, etc. Federal cases are often not about these types of things at all and are about businesses that operate in multiple states (because they may operate differently according to the state constitutions)
Edit: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-cases
It says that they preside over Constitutional cases