“SHOCK WAVE:” LA Times troubled by Trump’s “flipping” of the 9th Circuit.

This “shock wave” is just a nonsense comment, an attempt to paint these appointments as some sort of unprecedented makeover just seven years after Reid and Obama did the same damned thing on the other coast. It’s as overblown as the hyperbole over the Ninth Circuit’s rate of reversals.

It does serve one purpose, however — to remind conservatives and moderates about the consequences of the next election. Who do they want to see appointing the next two Supreme Court justices and dozens of appellate judges — Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump? It’s still going to be the judiciary, smartypants.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): When Democrats dominate the judiciary we’re told — even by Chief Justice Roberts, who certainly knows better — that judges have no party. When Republicans dominate, we’re told the judiciary has become “politicized.”