Angie Craig: “I am here in the Chamber this afternoon to speak to the nomination of Jay Bybee of Nevada to the Ninth Circuit Court. I…”

“I am here in the Chamber this afternoon to speak to the nomination of Jay Bybee of Nevada to the Ninth Circuit Court. I call it the Ninth Circuit Court of Western States. I know the State of the Presiding Officer is part of the Ninth Circuit, as is my State of Idaho. It is a circuit that has caused us great frustration over the last good number of years as many of its cases have been overturned. In fact, just this term, the Supreme Court in one day overturned three cases or reversed three cases of the Ninth Circuit. Some call it the most dysfunctional court of the land. I believe it to be that. Idahoans are extremely frustrated when a San Francisco-oriented judge makes a decision on an Idaho resource matter that is so totally out of context with our State and the character of our State and her people that Idahoans grow angry. That is why it is not unusual that I and others over the years have offered legislation to divide the Ninth Circuit.”