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?
Since it wasn’t an emergency, there probably weren’t four justices who wanted to hear the case, unfortunately.
One justice can’t overrule the rest of the Court.
Ultimately they chose this 12-year sentence for their offspring... They have no standing for complaint...
How can the Constitution be possibly interpreted as allowing the coercion of a student to recite a religious oath of a religion she is not bound to.
Agree with you in principle.
Now allow those who opt out to have their tax contribution returned...
‘That’ is the problem!
The Constitution isn’t about Giving Rights to the People!
(Those are God Given)
The Constitution is about the Peoples control over the government!
4 out of 9 said no. We do have 4 libs. Not sure why you are blaming Roberts without a shred of evidence or even the slightest understanding of the procedures to this case.
Good grief. It takes 4 to NOT take the case. RBG, Byers, sodamyor, kagen. That’s it!!!!!! No conservatives necessary at all.
Squishy? And what Supreme Court cases do you prove that with? He’s gone with majority since on the court. Why did you fight so hard for him if you despise him so much?
From post #8:
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.
Read more: ///law.freeadvice.com/litigation/appeals/supreme_court_case_hearing.htm#ixzz63VZiB63W
It takes either 6 Justices or the Justice in charge of the Circuit to deny a petition.
That means we either have two traitors or Roberts is the traitor because the case came from his circuit.
Agree... To get there would need the percentage of "home" home-schooled + "online" home-schooled + private school schooled + church schooled students to get close to 50%... Then there could be the voting power to do just that... Around here it must be getting close... Of the dozens of churches within 10-miles of me, there is only 3 that don't have a K-8 or K-12 operation...
I don’t despise him.
He has an affinity for precedence.
Precedent that is often wrong.
You have it wrong.
Four must vote to take the case.
We did not get four votes.
Did they explain denial of the case? Often there are stated reasons.
It takes six not to take the case. Your math is off.
Roberts and Kavanaugh.
That’d be my guess, too. There is no way the GOPe would have shepherded Kavanaugh if they thought he was a solid MAGA nominee.
Bump
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.
Actually that is the full description, and what it says is thea the emo for the case is assigned to 1 justice, who may deny it be themselves. If not he passes it to all justices and then it requires only 4 vote yes to hear the case. So it could have been assigned to a liberal justice and they decided on their own to dent taking the case.
As I understand it, the case is usually assigned to the justice in charge of the circuit.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/circuitAssignments.aspx
Roberts has the 4th Circuit (wherein Maryland is)
Sod off, Swampy.
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