It’s time to split up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Amen To That!
That is EXACTLY what I have been saying for years!!
The entire West is held hostage to this San Francisco far left Star Chamber.
Break it up. Add a circuit for the Intermountain West - Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah - and then another for the Northwest - Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
And while we're at it, make the Supreme Court a product of the circuit courts: one Justice each from each of the circuits. That way we don't end up with the Bolshevik Lawyers club of New York City that we have now.
Who splits it up? Sounds good.
Brilliant dissection in a brief article of the historic roots of the growth of judicial power by judicial assumption of powers not named in the Constitution nor anticipated by the Founders. As brilliant as our Founders were at anticipating problems and trying to provide for a checks and balance system, they never anticipated a Judicial coup by John Marshall.
However illegal or exta-constitutional that assumption of the power to review our laws by interpreting the Constitution may be, the idea that Congress is able or likely to limit them is minuscule. That ship sailed with Marbury vs. Madison and thousands of precedent in opinions by the Federal judiciary without a response by the Congress.
Without some form of Constitutional Amendment, the political nature of our parties will come forth every time a judicial appointment of importance is made at any level of the judiciary.