It's the federal courts version of the Hatfields and McCoys, but a move by one key U.S. senator could soon end the feud over a long-vacant judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Democratic senators from California and Republicans from Idaho have quarreled for more than eight years over which state gets to propose a replacement for Judge Stephen Trott, who took senior status in 2004.

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