Recently, the Jackson, Mississippi Federalist Society Chapter invited me to deliver an address on the state of the Fifth Circuit. That invitation was occasioned by several posts I've written about how the judges on the Fifth Circuit often divide in unexpected ways. To prepare this address, I focused on opinons from the the en banc court over the past four years. More precisely, I focused on how the Republican-appointed judges vote on the en banc court. At present, twelve of the seventeen active judges are Reagan, Bush 43, and Trump nominees.
You can watch the lecture here. And I've uploaded the slides here. After the jump, I will highlight some of my findings.
