Posted on 05/25/2019 3:46:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
When Trump took office, the Ninth Circuit had 19 Democratic appointees, only 6 Republican appointees, and four vacancies. In the last ten days, the U.S. Senate confirmed two Trump nominees, Kenneth Lee and Daniel Collins, with a third, Daniel Bress, awaiting a hearing Wednesday morning. If he is confirmed as expected by the Judiciary committee, Trump will have appointed seven judges to the Ninth Circuit, bringing the circuit close to a tipping point if, as Trump has often said, each judge rules in line with the views of the party that nominated them. There is one remaining vacancy, with eight of the Democratic-appointed judges eligible for senior status, which they are unlikely to take given the political stakes and as the odds of a panel of judges now skewing Republican keep going up.
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WRONG Eleanohr!
Trump was hired by the electorate to take over the 9th circuit it it not Trump who is taking it over. It is We. The People, that is.
“Hostile takeover”? He is doing what the constitution says, along with the senate. Anyway, I thought Eleanor Clift
was dead. Evidently all that has passed is her mind.
Eleanor “LET ME FINISH” Clift is one mean nasty woman.
So, basing decisions on law and the Constitution is now “skewing Republican”?
Nope, no bias here.
Barr is now mentioning what I have been shouting about for years: federal district judges should not be allowed to issue nationwide injunctions.
Which is the problem with the liberal judges; they think that they are philosopher kings who can use the court to force the views on the nation contrary to any law or provision of the Constitution.
Hostile takeover?
Keep in mind that two of Trump’s six judges received significant Democrat support.
Mark J. Bennett - 27 Republicans voted against him!
Bridget Shelton Bade - 25 Democrats voted for her.
Excellent point!
Bingo. Can we lock her up with Hillary?
I have read that Bridget Shelton Bade is Senator John McCain and Senator Jeff Flake’s pick so it is not surprising that she is “bipartisan”. It also means that she is probably a Kennedyesque moderate. But she clerked for Judge Edith Jones from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, who is as conservative as it gets, so there is some chance that she may be okay.
Any injunction they issue should apply, at most, to their own judicial territory. If an issue is important enough but the USSC has not visited it, each circuit will address it.
Eleanor Clift? I thought you was dead.
This is business speak
Funny post! I well remember her screaming that at Pat Buchanan!
Correct. Individual federal judges are worse than congress. They paid to get appointed.
The ninth circuit is a blight on American jurisprudence.
Do you have a video of that that you could post. I would love to see that. I would love to see that.
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