Editor,
Columnist Gordon Weil is correct in observing that the Texas-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is the preferred venue for conservative causes, but he failed to mention that bastion of partisan, liberal rulings: the California-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Whenever liberals object to acts of Congress or the executive policies of a Republican president, their appeals are always filed in the most liberal, most politically-active court in America’s history.
There are two sides to every story.
Paul Israelson
Biddeford
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