Tuesday, November 08, 2005

GOP closer to breaking up left-leaning 9th Circuit appeals court

Republican lawmakers have tried for decades to split the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sometimes called the "Nutty Ninth" by its detractors.
Each time, the nation's largest and most controversial court had done something to tweak a conservative nerve, with rulings on fishing rights in Alaska, timber harvesting in the Northwest or death sentences in California.

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