LA Times articles

The LA Times has How Trump tamed the ‘9th Circus’: Legal challenges to White House are moving east

• Trump appointed 10 of the court’s 29 active justices, transforming a bench derided by conservatives as the “9th Circus” or the “Nutty 9th” into something of an afterthought in the national political conversation.
• The circuit is now one of the most politically balanced in the federal appellate system, with 16 judges appointed by Democrats and 13 by Republicans.
• every Congress since 1989 has introduced bills to split it into two or more smaller circuits.

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump’s agenda faces legal pushback -- Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.