Yes you did. The US Senate is turning into a snake pit. I suspect when the revolution comes, the Senate will be one of the first battlegrounds.
Posted on 12/19/2005 8:44:54 PM PST by lowbridge
In the face of US Senate opposition, House Republicans have dropped a plan to split the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
House Republicans who contend the nation's largest federal appeals court has gotten too big to be effective had sought to attach legislation breaking it in two to a deficit-trimming bill.
Senators led by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein vowed to block the move if it made it to the Senate floor. The measure was left out when the bill passed the House early Monday. A Senate vote could come later in the day.
Nevada Democrat Harry Reid also opposes the measure while Republican Senator John Ensign supports it.
The Ninth Circuit covers nine states with about 54 million people, and has 28 judgeships. The circuit with the next-largest number of judgeships is the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit, with 17.
Opponents of splitting the 9th Circuit alleged political motives by Republicans annoyed by its rulings, including a 2002 opinion that declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional when recited in public schools.
The House legislation would have created a Ninth Circuit covering California, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, and a new 12th Circuit covering Alaska, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Arizona.
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We've still got at least 3 more years.
So, who is in charge of the US Senate. I was under the mistaken impression that is was the republicans, but obviously I was wrong.
If it takes 60 votes to pass something, then neither side controls the senate.
"California just loves sticking it to Utah and Idaho and other backward mountain places. The mountain states are a province of California, and they need to deal with that."
Are you kidding?
As a captive of the 9th jerkit of liberals, I am disapointed.
Would I do that?
Our Senate is pathetic.
Californians would have been stuck with the 9th, but I would have been under the new 12th with a chance of sanity prevailing. Damn chicken 'Icans!
Me, too.
What's going to change in the next 3 years that's going to allow this? Rats changing their mind? Republicans picking up 10 senate seats in 2006?
Only way this is going to happen soon is with abolishing the filibuster.
Ann Coulter has more cojones than all Republican sinators and congresscritters put together.
-PJ
Don't lump us with liberal black-robed ignoramuses in the 9th.
It is a shame that the GOP has a majority and not the strength and discipline to use it effectively for things like this that are clearly necessary and reasonable.
Pity.
GOP wimps!
Like that can't happen?
What good is power if you refuse to use it?
And they wonder why they aren't taken seriously by their own base OR by the opposition...
Yes you did. The US Senate is turning into a snake pit. I suspect when the revolution comes, the Senate will be one of the first battlegrounds.
Gotta fight the most important battles first.
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