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How Large Is Too Large For The Rule Of Law? Testimony Before The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing To Consider Proposals To Split The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals, John C. Eastman
John C. Eastman
Proposals to split the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have been around since the 1950s. A serious proposal was made to split both the 5th and the 9th back in the 1970s; the 5th was in fact split (into the current 5th and the 11th), but the 9th Circuit remains as it was, by far the largest circuit court in the country, responsible for more than 40% of the nation's territorty and 1 in every 5 members of its population. The Circuit currently has 28 active judges authorized and nearly 50 actually sitting (including senior circuit judges). …