WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump misstated how the federal court system works in a trio of tweets Wednesday about a judge who blocked his order to penalize cities that don't cooperate with U.S. immigration officials. TRUMP: First the Ninth Circuit rules against the ban & now it hits again on sanctuary cities-both ridiculous rulings. The judge who ruled Tuesday against Trump's order withholding federal money from so-called sanctuary cities is a single federal District Judge, William Orrick in San Francisco, not the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. [...] over the past five years, five federal appeals courts were reversed at a higher rate than the 9th Circuit. The 9th is by far the largest of the 13 federal courts of appeals, which means that in raw numbers, more cases are heard and reversed from the 9th Circuit year in and year out. [...] as a percentage of cases the Supreme Court hears, the liberal-leaning circuit fares somewhat better, according to statistical compilations by the legal website Scotusblog.