{"id":70297,"date":"2017-02-12T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70297"},"modified":"2017-02-12T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:49:41","slug":"ninth-circus-court-of-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70297","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Circus Court of Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that\u2019s not a typo, that\u2019s a well-earned nickname. After reading Ex-OS2\u2019s post, I got to wondering who these clowns were, and how many rings they had. I found some items of interest, and thought I\u2019d share. First, it\u2019s area of responsibility is huge, encompassing Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, and the Territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It\u2019s the largest of the 13 Courts of Appeals, with 29 active judges. Being so large makes for some unusual circumstances concerning the composition of an <em>en banc <\/em>court, where normally all active judges are seated. It\u2019s \u201cimpractical\u201d for all 29 judges to hear and deliberate on individual arguments, so a limited <em>en banc <\/em>review is held, consisting of 11 randomly selected judges. This is not an ideal situation, and can cause conflicts of law when the <em>en banc<\/em> panels deliver contradictory opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up the claim that the Ninth\u2019s findings are the most overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The real answer is, that depends. In my admittedly brief research on the matter, I\u2019ll paraphrase Mark Twain\u2019s definition of a gold mine as a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it, as an article with statistics is an agenda with a journalist standing next to it. The reality is SCOTUS can cherry pick its calendar, and overturns around 70% of the cases it hears. And I most certainly am not a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>So, who makes up the court? I\u2019ll not go into specifics, but the preponderance of judges were appointed by Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama. The three in question who found against Trump are Judges William C. Canby, Richard R. Clifton, and Michelle T. Friedland, appointed by Presidents Carter, G.W. Bush, and Obama, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) claims he\u2019s planning to introduce legislation soon to break up the Ninth, and create a new Circuit Court composed of Arizona, Nevada, Montana, and Alaska to relieve an \u201coversized and overworked\u201d Ninth Circuit. With the Republicans holding both houses and Trump in the White House, this could get very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that\u2019s not a typo, that\u2019s a well-earned nickname. After reading Ex-OS2\u2019s post, I got to &hellip; <a title=\"Ninth Circus Court of Appeals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70297\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ninth Circus Court of Appeals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}