Posted on 10/26/2019 4:56:33 PM PDT by OneVike
Vanity, Vanity, Vanity, but inquiring minds need to know. Which of the 4 conservative justices voted not to hear the case involving the issue of Maryland High School student Caleigh Wood, who refused to take part in a school assignment to write the Islamic conversion prayer.
My guess it was Roberts, but you never know, and regardless of how I try I cannot find out which Justice it was.
Anyone know which Supreme Court justice, or more, decided to vote with the Godless liberals not to hear the case?
I need to run to the store for my wife, but I will join the conversation when I return.
Roberts is the even money bet.
I figure your right but Robert’s is a Bushie and no conservative.
I need to take a shower but will respond later.
The shower.
You’re supposed to get into the shower.
The Supreme Court decides to hear a case based on at least four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court agreeing to grant the Petition for Certiorari. If four Justices agree to grant the petition, the Supreme Court will consider the case. A Petition for Certiorari is granted in very, few selected cases—fewer than 100 a year, by the Supreme Court of the United States.
A petition for Writ Certiorari is a request that the court hear your case. The Supreme Court receives over 5000 writs of Certiorari every year. Each writ and the case it comes from is reviewed the Supreme Court clerks and then shortened into a cert. memo. The cert. memo is what the Supreme Court justices use to actually decide the case. Upon reviewing the memo, the particular justice that the case was assigned to will either deny the appeal himself and affirm the appeals court judgment or will bring the cert. memo before the other justices and debate whether the case should be heard. In order for the case to be heard, four justices must agree to hear the case. This is known as the Rule of Four. If four justices vote to hear the case, then it is placed onto the court’s docket and the parties and their attorney’s are notified that the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case.
The court will typically grant the petitions of cases that are exceptionally unique and that present an issue of law that would be considered far-reaching throughout the United States. The Supreme Court also prefers cases that are clear examples for the lower court so that exact guidance can be given.
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There are five conservatives on the Court, counting Roberts.
It would take two conservatives to refuse the case, not just one.
There are five conservatives on the Court, counting Roberts.
It would take two conservatives to refuse the case, not just one.
But it had to be more than one "conservative" justice who voted not to hear the case. I say this because of this that I found:
The Supreme Court decides to hear a case based on at least four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court agreeing to grant the Petition for Certiorari. If four Justices agree to grant the petition, the Supreme Court will consider the case. ... A petition for Writ Certiorari is a request that the court hear your case.
At the link, the LA Times objects to that.
When the Supreme Court votes on whether to grant a writ of certiorari, it doesn’t reveal which justices voted in favor of or against hearing the case (unless a justice writes a dissent, which is highly unusual). This secrecy is totally unnecessary and inconsistent with democratic aspirations of public transparency and open government.
Is there a formal vote taken, when the SCOTUS declines to hear a case, or is it just the chief justice who polls the associate justices, to see if there is a quorum to take up the case; and if not issues a notice the court won’t hear/challenge the case?
Post 8 makes it sound as though one justice can sink your
case. This is likely the justice who is in charge of your circuit. Maryland is in the 4th circuit. Roberts is in charge of that one.
Now if it gets past that stage then it takes 4 votes?
Once again, Christianity is still criminalized and can not even be mentioned in any public setting while Islam is elevated and taught in public schools.
JoMa
I’d guess it was Roberts.
He’s not a real conservative.
Good grief.
Would have been ‘professional’ to offer another assignment to the student- but no big deal.
Lots of religions in the world for students to learn something of.
Obama/MB etc. has Robert’s puppet strings firmly in hand.
Muslim money is doing great damage to our country.
Three conservatives, two squishes.
Roberts and Kavanaugh.
Roberts is the Mitt Romney of the Supreme court. Just like Trump says......”how come the democraps never have guys like this?”
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