[DoughtyOne]

Create two more circuit courts of appeal. Locate one in Washington State. Locate the other in Arizona. Give them them 90% of the cases and severely limit the area serviced by the ninth. If this isn't legal, disolve the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and give it's case load to other circuit courts, expanding their staff to cover.

One way or another, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has to go. It's a rat infested marxist cell.

[Remedy]

It's a rat infested marxist cell.

The Claremont Institute: Balancing the Ninth

There is a lack of balance on the Ninth Circuit, but it is not the one Senator Barbara Boxer would have us all believe. Of the 25 active judges currently serving on the court, 18 were appointed by Democrats (4 by President Carter and 14 by President Clinton). Only 7 were appointed by Republican Presidents (3 by President Reagan, 4 by the President George H. W. Bush). Even with the appointment of people like Cox and Kuhl, Democrat appointments will retain a 2 to 1 margin on the court, and given the high number of appointments made by President Clinton — 50% of the total seats authorized on the court — it will be a long time before that imbalance even begins to be corrected.

[Iwo Jima]

Whatever circuit California is in will be dominated by it and consequently ruined. Therefore, CA should be in a circuit by itself. Arizona and Nevada should be transferred to the 10th Circuit (see Ben's post #17), CA should be the new 9th Circuit, and the new 12th Circuit should be all of the other states from the old 9th Circuit.

That way, the 9th Circuit will still be awful, but only people in CA will be affected, and they are after all the ones most responsible for the situation.