-: My name is James Graves.
I'm a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals
for the fifth circuit.
It's important, I think, for people to understand
that we are typically not in court very often.
When I say not in court, it's a very small percentage
of our cases that we hear or will argument.
And when we hear or will argument, of course,
that's just the lawyers appearing before us,
arguing the cases based on briefs that they've written,
issues that they contend were wrongly decided
in the court below.
So most of my job is reading and writing.
Reading briefs.
Reading the records from what happened in the lower courts
and then writing opinions in those cases.