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Obama Expected to Shift Fourth Circuit Court Left

By | 12.09.08 | 10:14 pm

Legal Times made an interesting observation today about President-elect Barack Obama’s opportunity to shift the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a notoriously conservative court that hears many important national security cases, far to the left of where it now stands.  The 15-judge court has four vacancies; when he fills More…