Trump’s hands are tied on 9th Circuit

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The Hill

If President Trump is going to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he’s going to have to rely on Congress.
Trump this week said he was looking at ways to split up the California-based court or appeals, which ruled against his travel ban in February and had long troubled conservatives with its decisions.
“There are many people who want to break up the 9th Circuit,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “It's outrageous.”
Eighteen of the court’s 25 judges have been appointed by Democrats, and it has irritated the right over the years. 

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Six things to know about breaking up the 9th Circuit

 

President Trump's acknowledgment this week that he has considered breaking up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into a Republican proposal that has languished in Congress for years.
GOP lawmakers whose constituents live within the 9th's expansive appellate jurisdiction have repeatedly introduced legislation that would carve a 12th Circuit out of states currently covered by the 9th.
But Democrats have argued that efforts to divide the West Coast circuit are politically motivated given the historic liberal leanings of its judges, and support or opposition for the proposal has broken down along largely partisan lines.
Here are six considerations for breaking up the 9th.
Litigants in the 9th must wait significantly longer to have their cases resolved.
Because the 9th Circuit is so much bigger geographically than other appellate courts, cases can get caught in a bureaucratic logjam and force litigants to wait long periods of time to see result