Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, took an unusual route to back his claim that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit needs no more judges.

Grassley, main critic of President Barack Obama's push to fill three vacancies on the court, sent a questionnaire about caseloads to each of the circuit's eight sitting judges and six senior judges. "Kindly refrain from signing or otherwise indicating authorship in order to guarantee anonymity," he wrote.

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