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Old 07-08-2019, 2:56 PM
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Cloture has been invoked for Daniel Bress: https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...53956940320768

The confirmation vote will be tomorrow: https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...56872103088128
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Trump’s getting closer to flipping the Ninth Circuit to a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents. Of the 27 current Ninth Circuit judges, 16 were appointed by Democrats and 11 by Republicans.

Still, the impact of his appointments can be felt in a narrow majority. Additional Republican appointees, for instance, could moderate majority opinions or write dissents that may prompt review from the Supreme Court.

Also, it’s more likely that randomly drawn en banc sittings—a larger group of judges that rehears some cases decided by a three-judge panel of the same court—will be majority Republican. En banc is the last possible stop before the Supreme Court.
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I agree completely about the 9th Circus. And, they can't realistically hold en banc hearings to second guess every conservative ruling. As I understand it, the normal procedure is that every case is heard by a three judge panel. The odds of those three judge panels now including 2 conservatives are way up.

The left will go shopping for a more liberal Appellate Court somewhere.
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Which puts the current count at what?
16D - 12R active?
with 9 - 9 senior
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Which puts the current count at what?
16D - 12R active?
with 9 - 9 senior
Plus there are 2 GOP judges who've declared they want to go senior status. IIRC, one specified on or before (I forget which) Dec 31st of this year and the other I don't think specified when, so I assume as soon as replacement confirmed. ETA: Plus, O'Scannlain's (GOP) seat has been open since 2016 Dec 31.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ng_nominations

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To every Nutless Never Trumped who would have preferred Hillary over Donald Trump, you can suck on this victory.
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It's on the way, but still a ways from the goal post. I'm hopeful that Trump will get a second term, and really keep this silver ball rolling. Hopefully SCOTUS will see more favorable changes as well; it's about time.
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Agree. The court appointments, at all levels, are crucial after decades of liberalism.

Some of you, in your role as voters, may not agree with some of Trump's actions, or may not even like him at all. Still, you should vote for him for the reason that his court appointments are now proven and are sterling, no matter what. AND, there is an increasing probability that Ruth Bader Ginsberg, former head counsel of the ACLU and the worst liberal on SCOTUS, will either die or retire in the next 5 years. If you want Bernie or Pocahontas (or worse yet, Kamala Harris) to choose who replaces Ginsberg, then don't vote for Trump.

Also, keep in mind that in many cases, some actions Trump has taken are immediately litigated by the ACLU and other liberal groups. This is part of what they call "the resistance".
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I'm not too worried about other stuff Trump is doing, I ONLY wish he packs as many court judicial positions as he possibly can. Time to turn this steamy cat-box around, and make those libs suffer as we have for so long.
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The 9th will continue to be the thorn under the blanket for Trump. They exist to block any Trump exec orders.

It would take another 25 years of Trump to clear out the communists there. We will get no relief from them as the next Presidente will stuff them back full of socialists.

Splitting that court is the only real world solution. I see no effort to do that.
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The 9th will continue to be the thorn under the blanket for Trump. They exist to block any Trump exec orders.

It would take another 25 years of Trump to clear out the communists there. We will get no relief from them as the next Presidente will stuff them back full of socialists.

Splitting that court is the only real world solution. I see no effort to do that.
It's a "real world solution" only if the right players are in the Senate and White House. If the 9th is split, and it should be, there will be a bunch of new seats on each bench for the incumbents in D.C. to fill. If the Dems control the Senate and White House at that time, then both new courts will be stuffed with liberals.
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The Senate will be taking August recess soon. Still no nominations for the 3 vacant seats yet. O'Scannlain's seat has been vacant for 2 1/2 years....

Anyone know what's the hold up or when Trump & Mitch will get back to filling those vacancies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ng_nominations
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Anyone know what's the hold up or when Trump & Mitch will get back to filling those vacancies?
I think they are basically forcing them through with minimal debate and using senate rules to shut down all the delays, so they may schedule such things to happen on a day when it will get less news coverage or at the very end or something.

Let's hope they can get these filled ASAP. We will have a balanced / conservative 9th once that happens and California will be afraid to defend any of its crazy gun laws in the 9th after that.
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I think it was Sarah Palin who said that she considered waterboarding terrorists equivalent to baptizing them. I liked that.

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Waterboarding has been part of the training for some of our troops.

I fail to see how terrorists are privileged to be treated better than our troops. So I don't have a big problem with upholding a system which does not grant greater privileges to terrorists.

I never had to be waterboarded, but I got to be harassed, starved at times, sleep-deprivation a lot, dehydrated at times, put in a gas chamber, etc.

So no, I don't really have a problem with a judge if they ruled that you can do the same things to terrorists that we do to our own forces.
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I think they are basically forcing them through with minimal debate and using senate rules to shut down all the delays, so they may schedule such things to happen on a day when it will get less news coverage or at the very end or something.

Let's hope they can get these filled ASAP. We will have a balanced / conservative 9th once that happens and California will be afraid to defend any of its crazy gun laws in the 9th after that.
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It's going to likely take decades before there is any parity in the 9th Circuit let alone a majority of conservative judges.

This conversation has only been about sitting judges and new appointments, which is half the story

What most of you are missing is that Circuit judges can choose to become "Senior Judges", which is like working retirement. This means that they still take case loads and sit on panels, which they do with great regularity -but they remain outside the notice of most people.

When you include these judges, we still have decades to go. Here's the current official list of all 9th Circuit judges. Note the real balance between Republican vs Democrat appointments.

https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content..._id=0000000035
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They actually didn't miss that. In fact, senior judges have been discussed here at great length, and if you had read up just a few posts (or counted them yourself) you would see that senior judges are currently equal:

Tenemae:
"Which puts the current count at what?
16D - 12R active?
with 9 - 9 senior"

So no. Your whole statement below is incorrect.

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It's going to likely take decades before there is any parity in the 9th Circuit let alone a majority of conservative judges.

This conversation has only been about sitting judges and new appointments, which is half the story

What most of you are missing is that Circuit judges can choose to become "Senior Judges", which is like working retirement. This means that they still take case loads and sit on panels, which they do with great regularity -but they remain outside the notice of most people.

When you include these judges, we still have decades to go. Here's the current official list of all 9th Circuit judges. Note the real balance between Republican vs Democrat appointments.

https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content..._id=0000000035
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Ever since Nordyke, 2nd A cases routinely go thru en banc panels, so yes, active judges do matter more than senior judges in CA9.
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The Senate will be taking August recess soon. Still no nominations for the 3 vacant seats yet. O'Scannlain's seat has been vacant for 2 1/2 years....

Anyone know what's the hold up or when Trump & Mitch will get back to filling those vacancies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ng_nominations
Well, it looks like Mitch & Co. have been busy, just not with CA9....

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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed nine more of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees to the federal bench.

The judicial confirmations come as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called for the Senate to confirm 19 judges before it leaves Washington for a monthlong recess at the end of this week. The latest package of nominees also signals the Republican-controlled Senate is now turning its attention to the confirmation of district judges, after initially focusing on filling circuit court vacancies.

“We’re going to continue to move these nominations forward,” McConnell said on the floor prior to the votes. “For too long, fairly uncontroversial judicial nominees just like these have been held up and delayed by our Democratic colleagues.”
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Really? Senior judges get to sit on more typical 3-judge panels and this then qualifies them to sit on 11-judge en banc panels.

@mit31, and if you bother to read my earlier posts, you'd understand that the 9th Circuit somehow manages to "randomly" assign disproportionate numbers of Democrat appointees onto panels.

So yes, it will still take decades for this to shake out with real parity or even Republican appointees.
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The post that I responded to said nothing about that. It specifically said that because of senior judges we would need decades to get parity, as if the number of senior judges was lopsided. Read your post and tell me how my response was in error.

As far as how senior judges effect cases... again.. if the number is even (which it is), how do they tip parity?

You are saying that because the circuit cheats on assignments we wont have parity until when? All judges are conservative and they have no liberals left to select? That is rediculous. Your claim is so broad and unspecific I don't know where to start.

How about this... here is a study that addresses this very topic. Wanna have a read and get back to us?
http://cornelllawreview.org/files/20....Levyfinal.pdf

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"The Federal Judicial Center reports that the Ninth Circuit likewise begins with a random assignment process but goes on to consider other factors for the calendar. It notes that in the Ninth Circuit, there is “random assignment of judges by computer to particular days or weeks on the calendar” which is designed to “equalize the workload among the judges . . . [and] to enable each active judge to sit with every other active and senior judge approximately the same number of times over a two-year period[.]”
Differing from the other courts mentioned here, the Center reports that the panel assignment procedure of the Ninth Circuit is also meant to “assign active judges an equal number of times to each of the locations at which the court holds hearings.”

The study goes on to discuss and dissect how circuits assign panels in practice and why. Would you like to read this and form an opinion on some facts and professional analysis? Your current one is not.

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Really? Senior judges get to sit on more typical 3-judge panels and this then qualifies them to sit on 11-judge en banc panels.

@mit31, and if you bother to read my earlier posts, you'd understand that the 9th Circuit somehow manages to "randomly" assign disproportionate numbers of Democrat appointees onto panels.

So yes, it will still take decades for this to shake out with real parity or even Republican appointees.

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The Senate will be taking August recess soon. Still no nominations for the 3 vacant seats yet. O'Scannlain's seat has been vacant for 2 1/2 years....

Anyone know what's the hold up or when Trump & Mitch will get back to filling those vacancies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ng_nominations
Today Trump nominated Danielle J. Hunsaker for O'Scannlain's seat. That seems poetic, given "Hunsaker earned her Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from the University of Idaho, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Idaho College of Law, summa cum laude, where she served as Lead Articles Editor of the Idaho Law Review. After graduating from law school, Hunsaker served as a law clerk to Judge Paul Joseph Kelly Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and to Judge Michael W. Mosman of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. After a brief stint in private practice, she clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_J._Hunsaker)

https://www.courant.com/news/connect...6xy-story.html

She's not on CA9 yet, and there are still 2 more openings....

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She's not on CA9 yet, and there are still 2 more openings....
Good news! Hurry up Trump, 2 more nominations needed, then confirm them all ASAP.

What will that put us at in terms of numbers?
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Trump has put forth his nominations for the remaining two Ninth Circuit seats: (1) re-nominated Patrick Bumatay (meh); and (2) nominated young, gun-loving, former NV and MT Solicitor General Lawrence Van Dyke, an avid IDPA shooter.
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Trump has put forth his nominations for the remaining two Ninth Circuit seats: (1) re-nominated Patrick Bumatay (meh); and (2) nominated young, gun-loving, former NV and MT Solicitor General Lawrence Van Dyke, an avid IDPA shooter.
An IDPA guy, they only do 10+1. We need a USPSA guy with the 20+ mag capacity...LOL
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Some much lighter reading:

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Van Dyke sounds like a great choice. I'll vote Trump again just based on his selection of Jurists. This battle will be won or lost in the courts and I like the nominations I've seen so far (for the most part).
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Trump has put forth his nominations for the remaining two Ninth Circuit seats: (1) re-nominated Patrick Bumatay (meh); and (2) nominated young, gun-loving, former NV and MT Solicitor General Lawrence Van Dyke, an avid IDPA shooter.
This guy sounds outstanding. Maybe would be better to have saved him for RBG's seat?

Anyway, after these two are seated, what does that put us at?

Edit: it's excellent he's got these nominees, but they are replacing other Republicans so it doesn't change the balance.
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TEdit: it's excellent he's got these nominees, but they are replacing other Republicans so it doesn't change the balance.
Party balance, no. But perhaps it alters the "commitment" balance? Seems like a judge who actively shoots could make a difference once in a while.
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California just lost a 9th circuit en banc on an abortion issue, with a vote along party lines. At the 11-judge en banc, 7 were Republican (including two Trump appointees) and 4 were Democrats. Basically, the state was just going to lose walking into that. They were thinking they could count on being saved by an en banc but the math is just not in their favor anymore. Or, it's in their favor, but not enough to rely on.

I certainly don't want to get into an abortion discussion in this thread, but just bringing this up to show that the 9th, including en bancs, is no longer a place where this state can count on winning. I can't understand how they can choose to fight gun cases in the 9th at this point. It's all risk for them.
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California just lost a 9th circuit en banc on an abortion issue, with a vote along party lines. At the 11-judge en banc, 7 were Republican (including two Trump appointees) and 4 were Democrats. Basically, the state was just going to lose walking into that. They were thinking they could count on being saved by an en banc but the math is just not in their favor anymore. Or, it's in their favor, but not enough to rely on.

I certainly don't want to get into an abortion discussion in this thread, but just bringing this up to show that the 9th, including en bancs, is no longer a place where this state can count on winning. I can't understand how they can choose to fight gun cases in the 9th at this point. It's all risk for them.
Regardless of the issue at hand, this could have gone either way. And without the Trump appointees it could have been 5-6 instead of 7-4. This is a good thing that Trump has done in the judiciary.
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I certainly don't want to get into an abortion discussion in this thread, but just bringing this up to show that the 9th, including en bancs, is no longer a place where this state can count on winning. I can't understand how they can choose to fight gun cases in the 9th at this point. It's all risk for them.
Wait, you mean the state actually needs to present a fair, well-reasoned, and good-faithed argument.

Thanks for the updates, CCWF. I had no idea the 9th had turned so much. Undoubtedly after NYSRPA, there will be cases coming up at the DC and CA level based on how that ruling plays out.

It'll be an interesting next 3-5 years for 2A cases in the 9th. Fingers crossed it goes 'our' way.
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We are beginning to open the door to true 2nd amendment rights. We need another four years ( Trump reelected ) to make this happen. Please, vote in Nov.
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Regardless of the issue at hand, this could have gone either way. And without the Trump appointees it could have been 5-6 instead of 7-4. This is a good thing that Trump has done in the judiciary.
But this shows that the other side (California) didn't expect any of this to happen. They used to be comfortably confident that, no matter what happens in a 3-judge panel, if they really don't like the decision they could get an en banc which would be almost guaranteed to overturn it. Surprise, that's no longer true. I'm sure they are reconsidering their strategies now that they can see the reality of the 9th. Before Trump there was almost no chance of getting 6 conservative judges on an en banc, because IIRC there were only 7 in the circuit, making it extremely unlikely for the state to lose anything at an en banc.

(I haven't read the history of that particular case so going on assumptions here...)
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Whats the count at today dems vs. reb in the 9th? Sorry, just catching up on this thread. Thx in advance.
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