Re: OT - Innocent men held as Guantanamo Bay prisoners

In article <37umn1p35qgpu24uoudgkgu5eso05g1smu@xxxxxxx>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:51:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
> <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On 14 Nov 2005 14:17:44 -0800, Winfield Hill
> ><Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Jim Thompson wrote...
> >>>
> >>> Their religion says they should kill me.
> >>
> [snip]
> >>
> >>> Leftist weenies can't push their communist agenda via the
> >>> legislative process, so they want to pack the courts instead.
> >>
> >> Excuse, me it's you who are packing the courts.
> >
> >You don't think the 9th Circuit is so liberal weenie that the majority
> >of its decisions are ultimately overturned?
> >
> [snip]
>
> Just found the stats: 75% of last year's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
> decisions were overturned by the Supreme Court.

Minor nit (I believe): 75% of the decisions that were appealed
were overturned. BTW, I understand that's down from the high 80s a
couple of years ago. Either way, it demonstrates why it's called
the "9th Circus Court of Appeals".

--
Keith
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