Peter
Junior Chimp
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« on: August 28, 2009, 04:54:25 AM » |
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I'd have to approve, but then I've always been very pro-expansion of the 4th Amendment.
Interesting split in the Circuit Court - the 9th has this unique limited en banc review thing because of its size.
1 Reagan appointee (Kozinski), 1 GHW Bush appointee, 5 Clinton appointees, and 4 GW Bush appointees. The vote was 8-3, and the 3 dissenters were all GWB appointees.
Interesting that Kozinksi has decided to take a bit of a libertarian bent. Two possible SC nominees of the future were on opposite sides of that decision: Kim McLane Wardlaw has often been mooted as a possible Obama appointee (in the majority), and Connie Callahan who reportedly was very nearly given Harriet Miers' nomination to the Court (in the minority).
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