True to form, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the lower court decision granting a stay on the President’s travel ban. What you won’t find mentioned is that the Ninth Circuit is the most overturned of all the Circuit Court of Appeals. Let me put this into a context that you can understand.  Jimmy Breslin, now of the New Daily News, Sunday Edition; Once said of the Joey Gallo Gang, “They couldn’t run a car wash at a profit if they stole the customer’s cars.” The Ninth Circuit has the west coast Gallo car wash franchise.

Judges keep score by rendering verdicts that stand up to appellate review. The thinking is that a judge that is overturned has not mastered his trade. It is appropriate the criminals, who often appear before judges have adopted much the same scoring system. Convictions count, court appearances do not.

At a certain point, the number of sanctions against a judge or criminal stops mattering. They become resigned, adopt a Popeye attitude, “I yam what I yam and that’s all that there is.”

When that happens, the whole system suffers. A sixty-three-year-old prostitute entering a guilty plea for the fifty-third time or a judge overruled yet once again are each unlikely to modify their behavior in any meaningful way. In either case what you wind up with is a listless blowjob delivered by a person who’s heart isn’t in it.

Paul Mirengoff offers his take of the Ninth-circuits-ruling-limited-in-impact-but-full-of-mischief.php. He does a far better job than I could in describing the ins and outs of this decision.