Posted on 02/29/2020 5:55:45 PM PST by ransomnote
President Trump has reshaped the “notoriously liberal” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, according to Carrie Severino, the conservative Judicial Crisis Network's chief counsel and policy director, who noted it was often referred to as the “Ninth Circus.”
The former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made the comments Monday on “Fox & Friends” in response to a Los Angeles Times article titled “Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a ‘shock wave.’”
The article said that when President Trump talks about his accomplishments in office, “he frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary — the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.”
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which encompasses California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Guam, Oregon and Washington, was a liberal bastion that has been aggressively reshaped into a more moderate court by the Trump administration.
The Ninth Circuit Court handles cases of high interest to the Trump administration, such as immigration and detention.
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“He hasn’t flipped it entirely,” Severino noted on Monday. “When he came into office the notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit Court, people call it the ‘Ninth Circus’ – it’s so out to lunch – had 11 more Democratic appointees than Republicans, now that margin is down to three, so he hasn’t fully flipped it, but practically speaking, he has.”
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You’re right.
Indeed, their only principles seem to relate to appearances.
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