The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is every conservative’s favorite bête noire. Famously, almost mythically liberal, the court goes by the “Ninth Circus” on talk radio and the “Nutty Ninth” among the conservative blogging set. It is, according to one right-wing presidential candidate, the “poster child for rogue courts,” while the late Reverend Jerry Falwell once called it “the number one court of wackos and idiots in the land.”
Perennial efforts to break up the circuit have met with so little success that another right-wing presidential candidate has called for abolishing the circuit outright—states and people within it be damned.
