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One of the judges wanted to let it happen again: > In a separate concurring 9th Circuit opinion, Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress agreed that the court should uph
by axus 2y ago
One of the judges wanted to let it happen again:
> In a separate concurring 9th Circuit opinion, Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress agreed that the court should uphold the trial court’s granting of immunity and dismissal of the claims. But he wrote that the panel should have simply affirmed the lower court ruling and not gone on to find a constitutional violation.
> It’s unclear, Bress wrote, whether Idaho authorities are more at fault, for example. “In my respectful view, prudence here dictated that we decide only what we needed to decide,” he wrote.
- mandevil 2y agoDaniel A. Bress is a Harvard grad, has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2003, clerked for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, and was appointed to the 9th Circuit by President Trump in 2019, approved by the Senate on a party-line vote, all Republicans in favor, all Democrats opposed. Just in case you were curious.