Trump’s Mark on Ninth Circuit Tested
President Donald Trump transformed the nation’s largest appeals court’s historically liberal bench during his first term, leaving it with nearly as many Republican-appointed active judges as Democratic ones. But has it helped him in court?
It may influence where suits are filed. The Ninth Circuit was a popular destination for major challenges against the first Trump administration. In Trump’s second term, most of those suits have been filed within the DC Circuit, followed by the First Circuit.
It’s made the Ninth Circuit more mainstream. Ninth Circuit decisions were reversed by the Supreme Court ...
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