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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Noooooooo! Say it ain't so!! I really wanted the 9th Circus run out of California on a rail.
DAMN!!
Not surprising, this was going nowhere.
S'YSSUP
Republicans deserve their first name... - gutless.
Just split it in two. The current judges get to preside over dog bite cases from Rinker Dink Street in Black Hole City Nevada and the other newly picked half gets the current load of the 9th circus.
Everytime I see these words I get this sick feeling in my gut. If the Senate has opposed something to death, it was surely a good thing for the country.
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.
There. Fixed it.
This ain't over. The pervert socialist domestic enemy
packed 9th...is going to get busted up.
If this was something the Rats could filibuster in the senate, I don't know why house republicans wasted their time trying to push it through.
Lots of big talk from Congress, no action. This is very disappointing.
Republican'ts cave-in again. The Republican'ts ALWAYS cave-in to the RATs.
When Republican'ts cave-in so often after winning all three branches, just imagine what the gutless ones will do when they lose a branch or two (or three). They will cave-in so much it will look like the world's largest sinkhole.
What else is new?
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 and when the 9th circuit goes hard right, filled with judges from Rexburg and Provo, then the split will occur.
This ain't over. The pervert socialist domestic enemy
packed 9th...is going to get busted up.
How? And how is it that such a small % of appeal appointments were made by republican presidents on this circuit where every other circuit is either split pretty evenly or has a repubilcan majority?
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