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(25,601 posts)Ranting and raving.
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Good god....my head is literally spinning from the lies! How are the Press people sitting there listening to that?? OMG....
I am just beyond believing any of this.
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)Luciferous
(6,086 posts)former9thward
(32,097 posts)That is of the cases they agree to review which are very few. The only other circuit higher is the Federal circuit which is at 84%. The American Bar Association did a study of cases taken by the SC from 1999 to 2008. The figures come from their study.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The Supreme Courts grant of certiorari tend to favor those cases that are likely to be overturned. Its a major selection bias, and it gives a very distorted picture of what happens in the appellate court system.
Every circuit has more than half of its decisions selected by the Supreme Court for review overturned, and the median is 69%. The deviation of performance between the circuits is hardly dramatic.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)That's chaos to him.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Remember a POS republiklan wants to create a 12th circuit and remove the red states from the 9ths purview ...include Washington St. too in order to control them...
former9thward
(32,097 posts)Most people in the legal field want the 9th circuit busted up. It is far too big geographically and has the most cases of any circuit. Democrats wanted the 9th busted when Obama was president.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)If you break up the court into two, that may mean new judgeships.
Those new judgeships would be filled by the Republican Senate with nominees proposed by a Republican president. There certainly is a political piece to this. -