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How Trump tamed the '9th Circus': Legal challenges to White House are moving east

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The 9th Circuit , once the left flank of the federal appellate system, is no longer a bastion of legal resistance.

The president's first -term efforts to remake a court whose rulings he once blasted as "disgraceful" Trump appointed 10 of the court's 29 active justices, transforming a bench derided by conservatives as the “9th Circus ” or the "Nutty 9th ".

The 9th Circuit may no longer be the forum of choice, experts say.

The West 's liberal attorneys general are likely to file challenges in their home states.

The sheer volume of "shock and awe" legal action from the White House means new challenges likely to appear in the territories of the 9th .

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