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Government

Jan. 7, 2017

9th Circuit may take right turn under Trump

A judicial aftershock following the Donald J. Trump political earthquake could jolt rightward the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the first time in a quarter century.

By John Roemer
Special to the Daily Journal

A judicial aftershock following the Donald J. Trump political earthquake could jolt rightward the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the first time in a quarter century.

The new Republican ascendancy could even revive and strengthen the long frustrated conservative goal of splitting the circuit along its left-right fault line, cleaving the liberal West Coast that voted overwhelmingly for Hi...

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