I was going to post Sotomayor's opinion yesterday, but the headlines took too much liberty with what was actually said. She still went hard on the court & the executive however. It's clear Donnie only reads the headlines.
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Trumps Greatest Accomplishment? - Flipped the 9th Circuit
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I was going to post Sotomayor's opinion yesterday, but the headlines took too much liberty with what was actually said. She still went hard on the court & the executive however. It's clear Donnie only reads the headlines.
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a ‘shock wave’
If this assessment is true... wow. but I don't trust the Times...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-22/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit
When President Trump ticks off his accomplishments since taking office, he frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary — the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.
In few places has the effect been felt more powerfully than in the sprawling 9th Circuit, which covers California and eight other states. Because of Trump’s success in filling vacancies, the San Francisco-based circuit, long dominated by Democratic appointees, has suddenly shifted to the right, with an even more pronounced tilt expected in the years ahead.
Trump has now named 10 judges to the 9th Circuit — more than one-third of its active judges — compared with seven appointed by President Obama over eight years.
“Trump has effectively flipped the circuit,” said 9th Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., an appointee of President George W. Bush.
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Democratic appointees still make up the majority of active judges — 16 to 13. But the court also has judges on “senior status” who continue to sit on panels that decide cases. Senior status rank gives judges more flexibility but allows them to continue to work, even full time.
Of the senior judges who will be deciding cases on “merits” panels — reading briefs and issuing rulings — 10 are Republicans and only three are Democratic appointees, Smith said.
“You will see a sea change in the 9th Circuit on day-to-day decisions,” Smith predicted.
The biggest change will come in controversial cases that test the constitutionality of laws and the legal ability of presidents to establish contentious new rules. The 9th Circuit is weighing challenges to Trump on a wide array of issues, from immigration to reproductive rights, and the rightward tilt is likely to make it easier for the president to prevail.
Only two of the 9th Circuit appointees have prior judicial experience — Bridget S. Bade and Danielle Hunsaker. They also are the only women among the court’s new judges. Three are Asian Americans — one an openly gay man who has two children with his husband. The other five are white men. Several went to the nation’s top universities.
Seeing the huge abuses by extreme liberal judges like in the Felicity Huffman case where she got a mere 14 days for her crime with a 20 year maximum. That is a huge joke. Even if she plea bargained her case, she got off because of her political connections and being an extreme liberal. Jussie Smollet got 16 indictments dropped by Kim Foxx and where is the judge handling the case? Hillary Clinton destroyed over 30,000 e-mails, used a private unsecured server and James Comey exonerated her the day before he interviewed her? There are numerous abuses especially, in the enforcement of US immigration laws even to this day. That is why I would continue to urge President Donald Trump to fill all vacancies in the lower courts and appeals court so that, the rule of law will be reinstated in the US as it should be.