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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Jan. 3, 2020

With year of historic additions 9th Circuit approaches partisan balance

Eight additions in 2019 nearly match expansion-aided record

The first days of a fresh decade welcome something of a new 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with a composition that meaningfully transformed over the previous calendar year and now includes its largest Republican-appointed cohort in a generation.

The past 12 months saw eight judges confirmed to the appellate court, a tally just one shy of a seemingly unmatchable total former President Jimmy Carter added to the bench in 1979, when ...

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