Nuts. Judicial charade. Mess. Those are not words judges typically use to describe their own work. But that’s what the U.S. Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit did in a 5-4 en banc split debating federal career criminal sentences for violent crime.

The 153-page package released Thursday includes a majority opinion from five judges, a concurring  opinion from the same judges explaining their reasoning and two dissents joined by the four judges in the minority — plus a call for help from Congress to rewrite the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984.