I did not bring up any politics. Did I refer to any political party or anything political? I simply want the EPA to do their job keeping contaminated ballast water out of our Great Lakes. And I applaud any court that rules they need to do so. I made no comment about the ninth circuit court. Dwight and Eric did.
I think letsrodeo was just speaking in general terms Cecil. I agree you did not introduce politics into this thread.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has the largest jurisdiction of any court of appeals including the following areas: California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. We don't even know
where the Northern Mariana Islands
are.
From a news source related to the 2006 year:
The 9th Circuit also has a long-running streak as the most overturned, which went unbroken this year. The Supreme Court reviewed 22 cases from the 9th Circuit last term [2006], and it reversed or vacated 19 times. By comparison, the Supreme Court reviewed only five cases, vacating or reversing four, from the next-busiest court of appeals, the 5th Circuit based in New Orleans.
In other words, although the 9th Circuit decided only one-third more appeals on the merits than the 5th Circuit, it was reversed nearly five times more often.Those are just facts, not politics just facts. As an also and besides many of us Californian's disagree with the majority of the decisions by our notorius appellate court. We did lobby to have the court moved to Disneyland since we believed that would be a more appropriate location for this Mickey Mouse court that seems to exist in an imaginary world but even Disneyland refused to take them. Six of the Seven Dwarves threatened to leave Disneyland if the court was moved there. The seventh, Sleeply, could not be reached for comment.
