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Comment by js2

5 days ago

The 8th Circuit has an even more conservative composition than SCOTUS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...

Case was decided by Loken (GHW Bush), Erickson (Trump), and Kobes (Trump).

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Yeul  5 days ago

In my country politicians do not appoint judges. The separation of the branches of power and all that...

But I will say that having independent justices who constantly fuck up your government plans can be exhausting.

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