President Donald Trump once again revealed he has no interest in truth, but rather is only interested in feeding his biases while attacking what he sees as his opponents.
After receiving a rebuke from none other than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court today, Trump decided to engage in a very public battle on Twitter with Justice Roberts.
Trump is now expanding his attacks on the federal judiciary, by repeating his very false claim that nearly eight out of ten decisions by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals are overturned by the Supreme Court.
That’s a lie – or a cherry-picked quote designed to dramatically mislead.
Here’s the truth.
“The 9th Circuit is not the most overturned court by the annual reversal rate,” explains The Washington Post, in response to Trump’s similar lies earlier this year.
About one-tenth of one percent of Ninth Circuit cases are overturned by the Supreme Court each year.
What Trump is doing is taking the number of cases from the 9th Circuit the Supreme Court accepts, or reviews, and claiming that number represents all its cases, which is false.
Also, other appeals courts have higher overturn rates than the 9th Circuit.
For years Trump has falsely insisted that liberals file cases against his administration in the 9th Circuit because it is the most liberal. What the President refuses to understands is that cases must be filed based on the case itself. For example, the Attorney General of Hawaii cannot file a cases on Trump’s Muslim ban in the 5th Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Because he represents Hawaii, he must file his case in the Ninth Circuit, which oversees must of the West Coast states, including Hawaii.