Talk:N. Randy Smith

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[edit] On the number of appointees to various circuits

Currently the page includes the following paragraph:

Smith is the seventh judge Bush has appointed to the Ninth Circuit. Bush has placed that many judges on only one other Court of Appeals, the Eighth Circuit.

however, this is not quite accurate. President Bush has also appointed 7 judges to the 6th circuit, although there are only 6 actively serving with Susan Bieke Neilson's death. I am not sure if this is deserving of an edit, as it does give an at least superficially accurate portrayal of the current composition of the circuit courts, and an edit may make it unnecessarily verbose. Alternatively, the second sentence may deserve to be deleted entirely (or moved to a trivia section of the 9th circuit's page) as it is possible it will become dated and require updating in future (e.g. Thomas Hardiman is currently under consideration by the SJC, and would be the 7th Bush appointee to the 3rd circuit, although with Chertoff going to DHS and Van Antwerpen taking senior status, he would only be the 5th active Bush judge on that court).

72.183.240.231 21:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you make a good point. I don't think it's problematic to update and expand slightly, though you're correct that it might better be a trivia thing on the Ninth Circuit page.--Smashingworth 01:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not a regular editor - I've only fixed a few small things like years being off, when I catch them, things that I can't (I hope) possibly screw up! :D - so I'll probably leave it in the hands of someone more capable who is used to handling all the cross-referencing tasks required (I just checked the page for Bobby Shepherd, the last 8th circuit judge confirmed, and it makes a similar statement that is now out of date with the number of 9th circuit appointees matching the 8th). But if the consensus seems to be that it should be changed, but it has not been after several weeks (maybe after Hardiman is confirmed), I may put in an effort and see what y'all think. 72.183.240.231 23:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not surprised Shepherd's page says that since I also created it. I've created that vast majority of pages for Bush's Circuit appointees, so they all bear my writing style. If you can improve them, please do.--Smashingworth 02:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Haha, cool. Great job on the pages, btw, thanks for all the work. 72.183.240.231 06:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)