Bill aims to split Ninth Circuit Court

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals includes nine states, plus Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Map via Ninth Circuit website.)
The age-old effort to split up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is back. Republican senators Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Steve Daines of Montana have co-sponsored the latest bill. The Ninth Circuit is the federal appeals court for Alaska and eight other western states. It is by far the biggest of all the circuit courts, serving a population nearly double the seco