[Poohbah]

My understanding is that 24 hours are needed to show just how idiotic the 9th Circle Jerk was, and SCOTUS will need 48 hours to stop laughing long enough to b!tch-slap them :o)

[RonDog]

See also a recent post by DoughtyOne:

9th Circuit's Rulings Frequently Overturned
Washington Times ^ | 6/28/02 | Joyce Howard Price

Posted on 06/27/2002 10:35 PM PDT by kattracks

The federal appeals court in San Francisco that found the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional Wednesday is known as an activist court whose decisions regularly are overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, legal analysts said yesterday.

"The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' liberal record ... and its reputation as the most overturned court in the country ... have almost grown to the status of an urban myth," said Steven Fitschen, president of the National Legal Foundation.

Mr. Fitschen noted that in 1996-97, the Supreme Court issued opinions in nearly 90 cases. "It reversed 27 of the 28 rulings it got from the 9th Circuit, and 17 times, the reversals were unanimous," he said.

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35 posted on 09/15/2003 5:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne