Congress Considers Splitting The 9th Circuit. Sure They Are.

Via Daily Caller:

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.

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I'll believe when I see it. Congress will do what they always do, nothing. Just do it, and stop talking about it. Split it and staff them with entirely new sets of judges whose focus is on the Law and not some liberal screwball agenda. I say the only thing you have to do is fire the corrupt, Liberal, judges who refuse to follow the Constitution the way it is written. Liberals should not be allowed to be judges. Liberals should not be allowed any job which consists of a person having a thought process. Until the Constitution is changed and lifetime tenure for Federal judges is abolished, liberal activism from the Federal judiciary will continue in one form or another.