Posted on 09/05/2020 12:38:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
Returning to numbers, on Inauguration Day, Republican-appointed majorities remained only in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, basically the middle of the country. While those majorities have grown and gotten younger, and more originalist, more interesting is how Trump and McConnell have been able to reverse the tide in the other nine circuits. For only the second time, the Senate confirmed double-digit circuit judges three years in a row.
The Third Circuit, based in Philadelphia, was the first one to flip from Democratic-appointed majorities to Republican-appointed ones. Then in quick succession came the New York-based Second and the Atlanta-based Eleventh. A far more significant shift has occurred on the Ninth Circuit, which has moved from 19 Democrat-appointed judges, nine Republican-appointed, and one vacancy, to 16 Democrat and 13 Republican.
The resulting ratio of D:R appointees is lower than in five other circuits. Ideological rebalancing is already being felt in the makeup of three-judge case panels and, unique to this court, the “limited” en banc panels of eleven. And the Ninth Circuit skews old, so if Trump is reelected, it could end up with a GOP-appointed majority for the first time since before the Carter-era judiciary expansion (which is why the court skews left in the first place).
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
A reminder of how much destruction Carter did in his 4 years.
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