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

[pdq]

He also said 80% of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decisions have been overturned.

In fact, less than 1% of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decisions have been overturned.

Snopes:

Each year the federal courts of appeals collectively terminate an average of 60,467 cases. However, the Supreme Court only reviews an average of 64 cases per year, which is about 0.106% of all decisions by the federal courts of appeals.

The Supreme Court generally only takes cases which they think raise legitimate questions; the vast majority are not taken up. As a result, between 1998 and 2008, in the tiny minority of cases the SCOTUS reviewed, the Supreme Court either vacated or reversed the majority of rulings from every Appeals Circuit Court district in the US:

It's just the nature of the process. And in any case, the Trump administration is unlikely to appeal this to the SCOTUS at this point anyway, because most folks that ought to know think they'd lose.

[Kraniac]

Kraniac wrote:
Ok..please confirm..

Did he say, when talking about the aging and decrepit US military hardware, that it was stuff "I used"

??

Im pretty sure he did.

I went through the transcript and here is the quote..confirmed..

=="They don't have the right equipment, and their equipment is old. I used it. I talked about it. At every stop...."

Guy is so delusional..this??? Especially coming from a guy with 4 draft deferments plus one for having "bad feet"

..which is laughable considering that he was a pretty good shortstop who was scouted by the majors..a position which requires great FEET...what a douche

[Shera]

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.

[Dennis S]

Kraniac wrote:
[quote=Kraniac]
Ok..please confirm..

Did he say, when talking about the aging and decrepit US military hardware, that it was stuff "I used"

??

Im pretty sure he did.

I went through the transcript and here is the quote..confirmed..

=="They don't have the right equipment, and their equipment is old. I used it. I talked about it. At every stop...."

Guy is so delusional..this??? Especially coming from a guy with 4 draft deferments plus one for having "bad feet"

..which is laughable considering that he was a pretty good shortstop who was scouted by the majors..a position which requires great FEET...what a douche
Aw, come on. How do you think he got his Purple Heart?

[Dennis S]

He said he inherited a mess.

[Dennis S]

18 WTF moments from the press conference by Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/fea...newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=021617_16

I've heard interviews with Charles Manson that weren't this crazy.

[rjmacs]

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.

[$tevie]

I like it when he asked the reporter if she was friends with the CBC. Because all Black people know each other.

[pdq]

"We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that."

Yup. No one ever talks about nuclear weapons.

Never.

[Pam]

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.

If a court only hears one case and it's overturned then they have a 100% reversal rate. See how stats work?