Composition
See also: Judicial appointment history for United States federal courts#Eighth CircuitRepublican Presidents have appointed a greater percentage of judges to the Eighth Circuit (nine of eleven active judges, or 82%) than any other Court of Appeals in the United States. Seven judges were appointed by George W. Bush, making the Eighth Circuit the only Circuit to have a majority of its judges appointed by a single President.
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“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. We do not like that kind of immortality, but what is to be done about it?”
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