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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
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Unfortunately for your argument, these points in the article that you selected to post, indicate that the proposed "split" is motivated solely, including your own opinion, by a desire to advance your own political goals, and not to insure that the court protects the "least of us", from the "rest of us", i.e., a foremost concern that "justice" gets done........
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.....He urged the committee to review the entire record, which includes letters from groups of law professors, judges and bar associations, all opposed to a split. Indeed, the American Bar Association, most of the state bar associations in the 9th Circuit, a majority of the district judges in that circuit, and as many as 23 of the current 26 active judges on the 9th Circuit oppose a split.
"The overwhelming majority of our court of appeals judges oppose a division of the circuit," Chief Judge Mary Schroeder testified, noting that past and future chief judges appointed by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan and Clinton share her views. "This has never been a partisan political issue for us.".....
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