Every now and again I lament the fact the federal judges seem to be higher in the case-assignment pecking order than we staties. That gives them much more opportunity to incur the wrath of the populace than state courts. The feds regularly get to rule on things that anger half or more of everybody in America; I’m lucky if I can irritate a county.

And my lot is better than most. Think about it. The Wyoming Supreme Court only gets the chance to offend a half-million people with its rulings. That’s all the people they got. Granted, most of those folks own guns, but still … .  The Ninth Circuit regularly offends that many people[1] with its lunch order.

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