Margolin v. NAIJ · ¶16

Federal courts are not “roving commissions,” Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U. S. 601, 611 (1973), licensed to “ `sally forth each day looking for wrongs to right,' ” Sineneng-Smith, 590 U. S., at 376 (quoting United States v. Samuels, 808 F. 2d 1298, 1301 (CA8 1987) (Arnold, J., concurring in denial of rehearing en banc)). The Court of Appeals lost sight of those principles here.

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