How Trump shook up the balance of an appeals court once reviled by the right
How Trump shook up the balance of an appeals court once reviled by the right Ben Feuer FacebookTwitterEmail President Trump shook up the balance of an appeals court once reviled by conservatives.Getty Images In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter, with a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, doubled the size of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and appointed some of the most liberal judges in American history. By 1980, Carter’s 15 appointments meant nearly 70% of the court’s judges were Democrats. Some would later become household names, both celebrated and revil...