Which created the courts of appeals?

a. the President

b. the Supreme Court

c. the Attorney General

d. Congress

In an effort to relieve the caseload burden in the Supreme Court and to handle a dramatic increase in federal filings, Congress, in the Judiciary Act of 1891, est. nine courts of appeals, one for each judicial circuit.

d. Congress

Explanation:

THe courts of appeals were created by Congress in the Judiciary Act of 1891 because the Supreme court had too much work processing all of the appeals that were being done in different cases all over the country, the main goal of the courts of appeals is to create a filter before the appeals and cases arrive to the Supreme court in order to leave the most important cases to the Supreme Court and the minor cases that can be resolved in local courts of appeals are resolved quicker.