Backward? Utah is Reagan country my FRiend.
Oh, and Utah's not in the 9th circuit.
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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Get rid of the incumbents!!
We need Tom Delay back.
Disappointing.
And backed down over what? Are you going to tell me the voters care about the organization of the federal appellate judiciary? Oy.
We can thank our weak links in the Senate for this. McCain, Specter, Chaffee, Collins, Warner and Hagel are their names. Until they're replaced, the bad guys will get to pick and choose their victories and defeats in the Senate.
I would be in favour of getting rid of the filibuster, however it's possible we could regret doing so when we are in the minority again and want to stop some Rat insanity from passing.
Even if all 55 republican senators voted for it, we would still be shy 5 votes to break a filibuster.
That is a moot point. It does not matter what the general population thinks. What matters is that the Republicans caved once again on a matter that needs to be done: Breaking up the 9th.
Backward? Utah is Reagan country my FRiend.
Oh, and Utah's not in the 9th circuit.
The Republicans quit faster than the French.
The two party system is nothing but a myth, there is only party in control inthe United Stats,the Democrats.
While there may be a Republican in the White House, more Republicans than Democrats in Congress, the Republicans do not run squat.
Grrrr...this says everything about those who opposed.
The only news here is that they didn't attach it to the budget bill.
This wasn't a bill to add such things to -- that doesn't mean that this won't be done, perhaps as soon as next year.
This bill contained about as much as you could put in and still pass. It only passed the House 212-206 as it is.
Exactly. Our side is the Washington Generals. The Dems are the Globetrotters. They win. We shoot and miss and tumble all over the floor. We could have ninety Republicans in the senate and we'd still go belly up.
GOP caves again!!!
The "Two-Party Cartel" owned by the elites, get their wish with this blunder. So which faction of this cartel has their constituants most fooled?
They are attempting to make conservatives think that the GOP is their party
Please allow me to ReWrite™ that...
If it takes 60 votes to pass something, thenneither sidethe Party of Gubmint controls the senate.
Why is splitting the 9th even that important? Just fill it with conservatives. Problem solved. It's going to be a lot easier to defeat that filibuster than one against splitting the 9th.
There are four vacancies on the court right now. Time to fill them.
All that splitting the 9th is going to do is limit the range of cases it's going to hear. You're still going to have the same dopes from the People's Republic of San Francisco bringing their cases before the court if you split the 9th.
It would give President Bush the chance to appoint a bunch of new originalists to a new circuit, but you'd still have the 9th over there creating federal rulings that can only be overturned by the Supreme Court. If you ask me, you're better of trying to get that circuit under control.
Anyone got a reason why splitting would actually be better?
Senators think they have to power to block someone from their state they think is not right. No idea why, and those states are all pretty liberal apparently
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