Splitting the Ninth?

Law.com has Senator Plans to Reintroduce Bill to Split 9th Circuit -- Proponents have long argued that the circuit covers too much territory and too many people and its docket is unmanageable; critics say the current system isn’t broken and motivations for the split are merely political.

• Sen. Mike Crapo plans to reintroduce legislation to split up the country’s largest—and long considered most liberal—federal appeals court, the Idaho Republican's office said this month.
• For decades, Republicans have endorsed various proposals to split up the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Crapo's bill, last introduced in 2021, would create a new Twelfth Circuit consisting of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.... The Ninth Circuit would be composed of California, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.