It May Be Time To Downsize The 9th Circuit

By Brian Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt University School of Law | July 31, 2017, 8:03 PM EDT

Many people think only rank partisanship favors splitting up the Ninth Circuit, but I think there is a nonpartisan, good government reason to consider it: Smaller circuits make fewer outlier decisions.

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