Analysis

7th Circ. On Brink Of Ideological Shift With Posner's Exit

By Sindhu Sundar (September 5, 2017, 9:46 PM EDT) -- In the past decade, the Seventh Circuit's many Republican-appointed judges, including the departing Richard Posner, have taken conventionally liberal stances in a number of high profile civil rights cases. But Judge Posner's retirement now leaves the court with four vacancies, giving the Trump administration room to appoint enough reliably conservative jurists to upend the court's nuanced ideological balance....

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