Monday, February 26, 2018
And the Fix Is In
Couldn't get four to agree to hear the obvious, huh? [More]
Good thing this has absolutely nothing to do with that "single issue."
Isn't that right, everyone with a voice who represents himself as "pro-gun" and has deliberately stayed silent on this?
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"But government lawyers also asked the Supreme Court to take the highly unusual step of agreeing to hear the case, bypassing the appeals court."
And as we all know, one must exhaust ALL remedies at the lower court levels before the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, right? At least that's how things USUALLY go. They certainly wouldn't hear anything we peons brought before them if we hadn't jumped through all the hoops first . . .
-MM
The Supremes were busy with something important.
Courts in general, and SCOTUS in particular, put a lot of value on the doctrine of "stare decisis".
Definition of stare decisis
: a doctrine or policy of following rules or principles laid down in previous judicial decisions unless they contravene the ordinary principles of justice
They build one decision atop one or more previous decisions and do whatever is humanly and/or judicially possible to avoid overturning a previous decision. Take note of Justice Thomas' dissent when the majority refused to revisit "The Slaughterhouse Cases" when considering incorporation of The Second Amendment in McDonald vs Chicago.
In so doing they sometimes resemble partiers playing a game of "Twister". In actual fact, they have turned American jurisprudence into something resembling a house of cards. Pull out the wrong card and the whole thing collapses.
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