JOSH BLACKMAN: A Numbers Game: Who Would The Judicial Conference’s New Policy Help And Who Would It Hurt? “It will be harder for conservative litigants in blue states and liberal litigants in red states to obtain statewide relief. It will be harder for conservative litigants in red states to obtain nationwide relief. Liberal litigants will have virtually unchanged odds to obtain nationwide relief.”

My biggest issue isn’t the results, it is that there’s a statute addressing this, and the Judicial Conference should just be following the statute.