Originally Posted by Imperator

pram...U drink beer right?



get it?

Originally Posted by jamesrage

Then why is the 9th circuit court the most overturned court?

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of the 80 cases the Supreme Court decided this past term through opinions, 56 cases arose from the federal appellate courts, three from the federal district courts, and 21 from the state courts. The court reversed or vacated the judgment of the lower court in 59 of these cases. Specifically, the justices overturned 40 of the 56 judgments arising from the federal appellate courts (or 71%), two of the three judgments coming from the federal district courts (or 67%), and 17 of the 21 judgments issued by state courts (or 81%).

Notably, the 9th Circuit accounted for both 30 percent of the cases (24 of 80) and 30 percent of the reversals (18 of 59) the Supreme Court decided by full written opinions this term. In addition, the 9th Circuit was responsible for more than a third (35%, or 8 of 23) of the High Court’s unanimous reversals that were issued by published opinions. Thus, on the whole, the 9th Circuit’s rulings accounted for more reversals this past term than all the state courts across the country combined and represented nearly half of the overturned judgments (45%) of the federal appellate courts.

The 9th Circuit also hears the most cases of any of the circuit courts and thus has the most decisions move on to the Supreme Court.

Originally Posted by pramjockey

A beer tax?



No. Since there seem to be a limited number of people with their panties all twisted about this issue, how about a special tax on panties?

Originally Posted by partofme

Just because their decisions are different than that of the rest of the country doesn't mean they are wrong or do not believe they are constitutional.

Originally Posted by Imperator

well higher courts do hence the reversals....

Originally Posted by pramjockey

No. Since there seem to be a limited number of people with their panties all twisted about this issue, how about a special tax on panties?

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Couldn't judges be defined as activist if they legislate from the bench ?

Nothing to do with idealogy.

Originally Posted by Imperator

sin tax baby.....you know the drill....

Originally Posted by Mrs. M

Go right ahead!!!! I don't own any!!!!!!

Originally Posted by partofme

Define legislate exactly. They are in a position to make decisions on the cases brought before them. What constitutes legislating exactly? Usually doing something that is not popular with the people calling it legislating form the bench.

Originally Posted by proUSA

mmmmm, now ain't my mind working over time.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

When a decision on a case affects all of society, the judge decides a case that society SHOULD have a say in but doesn't, because the judge decided FOR the entire society, THAT is legislating from the bench.

Should a judge have the right to say that murder is legal if someone cuts you off in traffic ?

Say a case comes before a judge where I killed someone for cutting me off in traffic. He decides that I was within my rights to kill someone for being so rude in traffic.

Of COURSE that's "not popular with the people" but it does set a precedent doesn't it ? Shouldn't more than one nutty judge with his head up his robe have a say in such a case ?

Thats an extreme example of legislating from the bench. Most examples are milder but they still ARE legislating from the bench.

One "judge" with his head up his robe doesn't have the power to decide some things for an entire society.

Originally Posted by partofme

The court system is not representative of the people in the same way those that are elected are. The three branches of government work different ways for a reason. Judges are not meant to only answer to popular opinion. If that was the case then they would be elected by the people or cases they deal with would be decided by popular vote. It seems like your problem is really with our system.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

I'm well aware of how the system works.

I'm also aware of judges overstepping the bounds of what they're supposed to DO.

Feign ignorance if you must. I will not.