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Short Circuit: Bill Aims to Deep-Six 9th
by Debra J. Saunders
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump undertakes most ambitious regulatory rollback since Reagan. (The Washington Post)
 
How Trump's executive orders line up with past presidents. (The Daily Signal)
 
Illegal immigrants concerned about deportation after raids. (CNS News)
 
Green card holder sentenced for voter fraud — yes, voter fraud. (Hot Air)
 
Record number of individuals are dropping American citizenship. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
DHS estimates border wall may cost $21 billion and more than three years to build. (Washington Examiner)
 
American Patriot and Vietnam veteran, Lt. Gen Hal Moore, dies at 94. (Military Times)
 
Venezuelans lead in U.S. asylum requests as socialism-caused crisis deepens. (Fox News)
 
North Korea tests a missile — and tests Donald Trump. (The Daily Signal)
 
Video: Winner of best student PSA. (Vimeo)
 
Policy: ATF study: It's time to reconsider regulations on suppressors and "assault weapons." (NRA-ILA)
 
Policy: A closer look at Neil Gorsuch, an excellent choice for the Supreme Court. (Insider Online~The Patriot Post
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White House Puts Palestinians,
United Nations in Crosshairs
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The White House is sending a strong signal that it will no longer tolerate Palestinian intransigence at the United Nations or the international body’s long record of anti-Israel action... according to White House officials and sources in Congress who told the Washington Free Beacon that the Trump administration will "unabashedly support Israel" in the months and years ahead. The Trump administration sent shockwaves through the U.N. late last week when it took a stance against the appointment of a senior Palestinian official to serve in a top post overseeing Libya. Senior officials at Turtle Bay expressed outrage over the Trump administration's move to block the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as a special U.N. representative for Libya. The move was widely supported by U.N. members, and, for a time, the Trump administration...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/white-house-puts-palestinians-united-nations-crosshairs/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fa3ebf7ad5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fa3ebf7ad5-45611665
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Why is Anyone Going along with the
9th Circuit COA's Illegal Ruling?
by SHER ZIEVE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Why are we going along with decisions made by judges that are-legally-not within their purview? Why are we continuing to follow rulings from rogue courts in our country that are illegal on their very face?... Are judges a part of the "special' class that was once reserved for corrupt politicians who operate beyond the law and get away with it? In this instance, NO judge has the authority to overturn the decision made by the President of the United States...not one. The actions and decision from the 9th Circuit and why it's called the 9th Circus Court of Appeals was patently illegal from its first cunning "review" of another illegal decision made by United States District Court Judge James Louis Robart. So, one illegal act Judge Robart had no authority to make any decision to-let alone override-stay President Trump's Executive Order on suspension of all immigrants from 7 Middle Eastern Terrorism hotbeds from a local judge was exacerbated by, yet, another from a higher court. Note:  I strongly assume this was the plan of the leftist Democrats and their leadership all along...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/why-is-anyone-going-along-with-the-9th-circuit-coas-illegal-ruling?f=must_reads
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The Immigration Threat Hollywood
Just Doesn’t Get
by Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC
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{aim.org} ~ Two incidents, occurring almost eight decades and thousands of miles apart, provide us with an important lesson about the challenging times in which we live... In the early morning hours of March 17, 1938, bespectacled Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev, 46, was marched in front of a firing squad near Moscow and shot. The unimposing Kondratiev was considered such a threat to the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin personally had ordered his death. A brilliant economist, Kondratiev had closely studied historical patterns, developing the “Kondratiev wave” concept. The theory enabled him to predict the economic rise and fall of empires and nation states. But, as far as Stalin was concerned, Kondratiev’s financial forecasting tool had a major flaw – it predicted the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-immigration-threat-hollywood-just-doesnt-get/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Feb-13-2017&utm_medium=email
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How liar-nObama Is Scheming
to Sabotage Trump’s Presidency
by Paul Sperry
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{nypost.com} ~ When former President Barack liar-nObama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, liar-nObama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000... who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And liar-nObama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House. In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, liar-nObama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda. He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action...
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Number of Former
Sanctuary Cities Reversing Policy
by Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order issued on January 25 — “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” — a number of cities that formerly considered themselves as “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants are reversing their policies... The first to do so was Miami-Dade County in Florida the day after Trump issued his order. Miami-Dade was followed by Dayton, Ohio, whose Police Chief Richard Biehl told the Dayton Daily News that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials would “no longer be impeded” when pursuing illegal immigrants being held by his department. Shortly thereafter Saratoga, New York; Finney County, Kansas; and Bedford, Pennsylvania changed their policies, as well. Marguerite Telford, director of communications for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), said that her group is “being inundated” with calls from officials of other cities asking that CIS remove their names from the group’s listing of sanctuary cities... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/25366-number-of-former-sanctuary-cities-reversing-policy?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Short Circuit: Bill Aims to Deep-Six 9th
by Debra J. Saunders
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{townhall.com} ~ How big is the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? The San-Francisco-based circuit is so big that it represents nine states, including Nevada, 20 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of the nation's land mass. It's so big that Congress has looked at bills to split the circuit since 1941, and it's so big that none of those measures have succeeded.

This year, however, Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain, both R-Ariz., see the possibility of success. They've introduced legislation to create a new 12th Circuit by peeling away six states: Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona and Alaska. The slimmed-down 9th Circuit would continue to hear appeals from California, Oregon and Hawaii as well as Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The last time Washington created a new federal circuit, the 11th, was 1981. There were proposals to split the 5th and 9th circuits, but the 9th remained the same while the 5th Circuit -- Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida -- was split.

"It was easy to do. You had six states. You could divide them three-three," University of Pittsburgh School of Law professor Arthur Hellman observed.

Also, Hellman noted, "there was a consensus among the legal community that the split should happen."

Not so with the 9th. Some circuit judges have resisted attempts to reduce its size, which also would reduce their national impact.

There's a price to be paid for that clout, said Walter Olson, Cato Institute senior fellow and founder of the "Overlawyered" blog. The 9th Circuit is the only circuit to hold "en banc" -- or full bench -- hearings with 11 of its 29 judges. Olson has taken to calling the 9th Circuit "the court that's not all there."

"It's so big the three-judge panels cannot keep track of what they're all doing. You've got a panel over here that says one thing and a panel over there that says the opposite thing," Vanderbilt University Law School professor Brian Fitzpatrick said.

Flake has argued that the district's size contributes to a court case gridlock.

"The average wait time for a decision is 15 months," the senator told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. "The one bedrock principle we have in this country is the swift access to justice. If you live in the 9th Circuit, particularly Arizona, you don't have that."

For years conservatives have mocked the 9th Circuit as the "nutty 9th," partly because of its unusually high rate of U.S. Supreme Court reversals, some of them unanimous.

"If you can't get anyone on the Supreme Court to agree with you," Fitzpatrick opined, "it's not a good sign."

With Republicans controlling the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, Flake has timing on his side, although he has said that he will try to win support from Nevada's newest senator, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. According to staff, Cortez Masto is studying the issue.

Nevada's GOP senator, Dean Heller, supports the concept.

"The severe backlog of the 9th Circuit forces Nevadans to wait too long for their day in court," Heller said, citing the 15-month delay. "It's clear the need for a 12th Circuit is warranted. I support Nevadans' right to a timely day in court."

Hellman doesn't see the new circuit ending caseload problems because the number of judges would not grow. As for the 10-judge panel proposed for the 12th Circuit, it would be smaller, but its rulings would be more predictable.

Flake has argued that a smaller circuit could do a better job representing Western states' approach to land use, which departs from the approach of many California judges.

Last week, U.S. District Senior Judge James Robart got the attention of President Donald Trump when he issued a nationwide ruling that stayed Trump's immigration executive order. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit heard arguments Tuesday as it considered whether to restore the order or maintain the hold.

Before the hearing, Trump issued a tweet that called Robart a "so-called judge," a personal attack that Fitzpatrick believes makes it harder to pass the Flake bill.

"I don't think Republicans like it when the president attacks judges," he said. And "it's going to make the Democrats stiffen their spines."

Amy Rose, legal director of ACLU Nevada, believes that if Robart's decision intrudes on the debate over the 9th Circuit's fate, "that's exactly the reason not to pass the bill."

Scholars have different views over which city should serve as a 12th Circuit headquarters. Some mention Seattle, others Phoenix.

Hellman recalls a late law professor who argued in favor of Las Vegas, with its central location and good airline service. More to the point, because the 9th Circuit has so many judges, which makes it harder to predict outcomes, the scholar joked, the circuit's headquarters should be in Las Vegas because it's such a gamble.

http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2017/02/09/ra-j-saunders-n2283254?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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