Conserves judicial resources that would otherwise be spent on clarification
Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Peter W. Huber 87, Ginsburg is Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Huber is a Solo practitioner, Washington, D.C, “The Intercircuit Committee,” 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1417, April 1987, WestLaw
A legislative second view, set in motion by court decisions on unclear or incomplete congressional prescriptions, could advance the coherence of federal law far more effectively than a second chamber in the Supreme Court. The legislative review we have suggested entails a step less drastic than the creation of a new judicial tier. The second-look device, adequately staffed and diligently pursued by members of Congress, could conserve judicial resources within the federal court system. It could also spare judges some detective work and avoid or dissolve much intercourt conflict. The first branch ought at least to attempt conscientiously an in-house ‘second look at laws' by legislators before adding another rung to the federal judicial ladder.
The Intercircuit Panel has been promoted as a forum with auspicious potential to render federal law more coherent and less likely to generate litigation.99 Regarding congressional attempts to create such a tribunal, one might recall the moral of Maeterlinck's fantasy play about two children who journey afar in search of a wondrous Blue Bird: in the end, the youngsters discover that all along the bird remained caged in their very own home.100