SPLIT IT: Congress Considers Splitting The 9th Circuit

[HAPPY2BME]

The most liberal court in America could be heading for a split.

A House panel held a hearing on possibly splitting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday morning. The 9th Circuit is recently serving as the primary antithesis to President Donald Trump.

Three 9th Circuit judges, including Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, Judge Alex Kozinski, and Judge Carlos Bea gave testimony before House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet. All three judges, like most of their 9th Circuit colleagues, support the current configuration and oppose splitting the court.

The subcommittee’s chairman, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, said the court has become too unwieldy to operate efficiently. At 12,000 cases, the court hears twice as many appeals as the next largest circuit court per year. The court also has the largest geographic jurisdiction in the country, running as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as Arizona’s Grand Canyon. Fully one-fifth of the country’s population sits in the 9th Circuit. As such, the court’s massive docket generates lengthy turnaround times in decisions and can make access to the courts challenging for average citizens.


http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/16/split-it-congress-considers-splitting-the-9th-circuit/#ixzz4bYV6WQM2

[Eupher]

All of those 9th circus court judges know and respect POWER when they see it, hence splitting the court is not in their best interests -- therefore, they're against it.

All the more reason to cut that bitch up into pieces no larger than any other court.

Let the case load be the defining factor.

[SVPete]

This should have been done decades ago, if only to serve the current circuit's residents better. As for politics, the indolent Obama and Clinton, and the inept micro-manager Carter should look on this as lost opportunity.

Back to practical considerations, the problematic parts of the current circuit are Alaska and Hawaii, which are geographically separated from the other 48 states. Perhaps they and other US possessions in the Pacific should be a circuit with 3-judge panels located in multiple points (e.g. Anchorage, Honolulu, Hagatña or Tamuning, and Pago Pago).

[HAPPY2BME]

Judicial Coup - Hawaii judge’s ruling could lead to constitutional crisis

Don’t expect the Ninth Circuit to stand in the way. It was that court that pointed the way for the Hawaii judge. Reversal is possible, but unlikely.

Thus, it probably will be up to the Supreme Court to stop what can reasonably be called the partial judicial coup. If it fails to do so, we might be in for a constitutional crisis.