Posted on 02/20/2017 3:11:27 PM PST by davikkm
WASHINGTON—Tuesday, the Supreme Court will begin its first sitting in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will reflect the views and priorities of President Donald Trump, inaugurating a new direction in American law. The Supreme Court hears roughly 80 cases per year, divided into seven monthly sittings. The annual term begins with its first sitting on the first Monday in October, and the last sitting for each annual term is conducted over two weeks in April.
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) represents the United States before the U.S. Supreme Court. The office is led by a solicitor general (SG) who is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, assisted by a principal deputy solicitor general who is a presidential appointment not subject to Senate confirmation. These two appointees oversee a team of close to twenty attorneys who are mostly career staff, the senior ones holding the rank of deputy solicitor general, and the junior members being called assistant to the solicitor general. Together, they constitute one of the finest appellate legal teams in the nation.
President Trump has not yet nominated an SG but has already named a deputy, Noel Francisco, as the number-2 at OSG. Francisco is a Supreme Court rock star, a former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and former partner at powerhouse firm Jones Day who has argued a number of major cases before the justices. Francisco has control over OSG until such time as Trump’s pick for the top spot is chosen and confirmed, which might not occur for another couple months.
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Do America a favor, Ginsburg and Breyer by retiring! MAGA!
I thought that Ginsburg was half dead anyway.
Like any other dem I wonder how long she gets to vote after she crokes.
Remember, SCOTUS needs to be limited by the Constitution which created it. A SCOTUS decision does NOT make national law. Society and the legal community have granted SCOTUS much greater power than what the Constitution authorizes. Nowhere does the Constitution give SCOTUS power to create national law. SCOTUS is the judicial branch and is given power to decide INDIVIDUAL CASES and CONTROVERSIES (Art. III, Sec 2). Thus SCOTUS decisions, if soundly based on the Constitution, are valid but limited to the parties in the case at hand and parties to cases with the same questions of laws and facts.
States and the other federal branches should not allow the scope of a SCOTUS decision to go beyond its constitutional limits. Congress as the legislative branch has the power to make national law regarding issues that arise from a given case, as long as the law is pursuant to the Constitution. SCOTUS as the judicial branch is limited to the case at hand and has no such sweeping legislative power.
A SCOTUS decision that is deemed unconstitutional should be rejected and nullified by the states and the other federal branches, but not without sound Constitution-based explanation and reasons for such nullification.
Sorry, you thought wrong. It’s more like 80%. 8>)
http://m.ljworld.com/news/2016/feb/13/former-lawrence-resident-lhs-graduate-shortlist-su/
I love this guy. I’ve heard him speak. He was on the POTUS list for S.Ct
This nasty hag will out live us all!! Don’t count on her retiring soon. She’ll hang on til the bitter end 4or 8 yrs if she has too!!! Look at the pennant president he’s 98yrs old and still going strong? She’ll out live us just to spite us! Count on it!!!
Peanut president...UGH!! I hate auto correct!
Only in the brain...only in the brain.
Wasn’t Carter the peanut president?
She is just sleeping. She already knows how she will rule before hearing the case.
Jimmy Carter is 92 and actually three months younger than George HW Bush.
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