Trump presser: He's griping about Hillary getting questions for the debate

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Shera wrote:
Politifact shows this reversal rate from 2010-2015:

6th Circuit - 87 percent;
11th Circuit - 85 percent;
9th Circuit - 79 percent;
3rd Circuit - 78 percent;
2nd Circuit and Federal Circuit - 68 percent;
8th Circuit - 67 percent;
5th Circuit - 66 percent;
7th Circuit - 48 percent;
DC Circuit - 45 percent;
1st Circuit and 4th Circuit - 43 percent;
10th Circuit - 42 percent.

Here's something else that Politifact said:

Politifact wrote:
Our ruling

Hannity said the 9th Circuit is "the most overturned court in the country."

While the 9th Circuit has a higher than average reversal rate among cases it sends to the Supreme Court, it has not had the highest rate since at least 2004 (the oldest data point we could find).

Even if it did, experts told us that the massive size of the 9th Circuit compared to the handful of cases it sends to the Supreme Court every year make reversal rates an imperfect measure of the quality of the 9th Circuit’s decisions. More broadly, experts say this statistic is a poor way of comparing courts.

We rate Hannity’s claim False.

Interesting.

Remember - you don't appeal a case to the Supreme Court if you're pretty sure you're going to lose. The fact that appeals courts generally have high overturn rates just means that among the cases that seek and are granted appeal, the Supreme Court is granting cert to cases that have a chance of going either way.