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Re: One of our favorite issues!
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Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:58:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
Curse them and their "rejected with comment" option!  I wonder if it would
sometimes be useful to know specifically why this or that case was not heard.

Consider also that only your first appeal to a higher court is a matter of
right, all subsequent appeals must be granted certiorari.  That means to
reach the Supreme Court you have to have something that the courts are even
willing to hear...every...painful...step...of...the...way.  Quite a lot of
political snubbing is possible through such silence.  I am 100% positive
that there are certain questions that the courts will not ever hear because
of political reasons.

One could almost call it a conspiracy of silence.

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: One of our favorite issues!
 
(...) Absolutely! My perennial bugaboo is the ol' "Creationism in public schools" mantra that's lately mysteriously popular here in the Dark Ages of Western PA. I'd love the Supreme Court to say once and for all "it ain't science and never will be, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: One of our favorite issues!
 
(...) Upon rereading it, I agree. It's a bit more scattershot than I'd initially thought. (...) I suppose that, as a matter of practice, to do otherwise would cause the judiciary to sort of bleed into the legislature. If there is any other way to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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