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To: laura_bush who wrote (28182)	9/19/2003 3:22:50 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

We don't need to imagine.... We are powerful.....and very potent to boot.....We've got the offspring to prove it.....hehehehehehehehe Your bitterness is very sad.....maybe if you weren't so bilefilled you would not be alone.... JLA

To: laura_bush who wrote (28182)	9/19/2003 3:33:02 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

See your in "conversation" with the Jr. High crowd again. For some other views consider It's important to know that the 9th Circuit is one of the very few appeals courts that have more Democrat-appointees, 17, than Republican-appointees, nine. Contrast that with the Supreme Court, where only two of nine justices were picked by Democratic presidents, and the reversal rate starts to make more sense. The federal judicial-appointments game is hardly devoid of ideology; is it surprising that Democrat-appointed judges may have different judicial philosophies than Republican appointees? Moreover, the Supreme Court keeps a more watchful eye on the 9th Circuit. Many 9th Circuit rulings that get reversed would slip under the Supreme Court's radar if they came from other courts. Part of the reason for that is personal. Almost half of the Supreme Court justices have close personal ties to the circuit. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who hails from Sacramento, sat on the 9th Circuit for many years; both Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor come from and practiced in Arizona, and each has acted as the 9th Circuit's liaison to the Supreme Court; and Justice Stephen G. Breyer grew up in the West and has a brother who is a federal trial judge in the 9th Circuit. Finally, I think many of the reversals by the Supreme Court reflect not a disobedience on the part of the 9th Circuit -- an unwillingness to abide by Supreme Court directives -- but rather a reluctance to take the next step that the Supreme Court probably will take, but has not yet taken. Where many other circuits may be trying to anticipate what the Supreme Court will think next, the 9th Circuit judges seem to ask only what it has already said. And if the high court has not yet spoken directly on the issue, the 9th Circuit tends to follow its own reasoning. from dodgeglobe.com Other sources include writ.corporate.findlaw.com and ce9.uscourts.gov Is the Ninth Circuit perfect? Hardly. But nowhere near as bad as portrayed by the RW ideologues and their sycophant "bootlickers". JMO lurqer