{"id":671,"date":"2020-03-02T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2020-03-02T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:44:30","slug":"rebuilding-the-ninth-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Ninth Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 40 years ago, one-term President Jimmy Carter completely changed the balance on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the largest and most litigious circuit in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1978, after the Democrat majority in Congress expanded the 19-member court to 29, President Carter had the unprecedented opportunity to fill those 10 seats and replace another 5 judges who retired.\u00a0 Carter did not just appoint liberal judges.\u00a0 He appointed some of the most liberal judges ever to serve.\u00a0\u00a0 These new appointments sharply tilted the once-conservative court to the left, creating a Valhalla for criminal defendants and litigants seeking to advance progressive social causes through the courts.\u00a0\u00a0 Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-02-22\/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit\">reports<\/a>, that for the first time since 1981,\u00a0 10 new appointments to the court by President Trump has significantly reduced the divide between Republican and Democrat judges. \u00a0 \u201cTen new people at once sends a shock wave through the system,\u201d one unnamed 9th Circuit judge said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the reaction of some of the older members of the court to the new appointees.\u00a0 It is safe to conclude that some of the criticism is related to the loss of power that the democrat-appointed judges used to wield.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Bush appointee Judge Milan Smith, Democratic appointees still make up the majority of active judges \u2014 16 to 13. But the court also has judges on \u201csenior status\u201d 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.\u00a0 Of the senior judges who will be deciding cases on \u201cmerits\u201d panels \u2014 reading briefs and issuing rulings \u2014 10 are Republicans and only three are Democratic appointees.\u00a0 \u201cYou will see a sea change in the 9th Circuit on day-to-day decisions,\u201d Smith predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 40 years ago, one-term President Jimmy Carter completely changed the balance on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the largest and most litigious circuit in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1978, after the Democrat majority in Congress expanded the 19-member court to 29, President Carter had the unprecedented opportunity to fill those 10 seats and replace another 5 judges who retired.\u00a0 Carter did not just appoint liberal judges.\u00a0 He appointed some of the most liberal judges ever to serve.\u00a0\u00a0 These new appointments sharply tilted the once-conservative court to the left, creating a Valhalla for criminal defendants and litigants seeking to advance progressive social causes through the courts.\u00a0\u00a0 Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times reports, that for the first time since 1981,\u00a0 10 new appointments to the court by President Trump has significantly reduced the divide between Republican and Democrat judges. \u00a0 \u201cTen new people at once sends a shock wave through the system,\u201d one unnamed 9th Circuit judge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rebuilding the Ninth Circuit - Crime &amp; 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