With a new Democratic president-elect and four of 15 judicial seats vacant, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may look quite different after Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20, according to scholars and officials.
"I think anytime you have four new people to a court that has 15, it's likely to change the makeup and the views of the court," said Carl Tobias, law professor at the University of Richmond. "A lot of people say it's the most conservative of the appeals...
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