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Flipping Circuits Red

The judiciary’s rightward march under Donald Trump and the Republican-led Senate is already apparent on the U.S. Supreme Court, but this swift reshaping also is delivering results for conservatives in the nation’s appeals courts.

• The Second, Third, Fourth, and Eleventh Circuits, whose territory ranges from Vermont to Florida, could all soon have a majority of Republican appointees.
• Even the California-based Ninth Circuit, which has stymied Trump’s orders on immigration and environmental policies, is within striking distance of flipping to the GOP.
• A president’s party affiliation is an imperfect judicial proxy, but a court “dominated by judges ...