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To: wagglebee

The court doesn’t ‘find’ cases. Cases are brought to the court.


7 posted on 01/25/2008 5:27:35 PM PST by dbacks (Taglines for sale or rent.)
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To: dbacks
The court doesn’t ‘find’ cases. Cases are brought to the court.

In a round about way they do "find" cases, there have been plenty of cases that dealt with abortion that the Court could have used to overturn Roe.

18 posted on 01/25/2008 5:35:49 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: dbacks

Cases are “brought” the Supreme Court only if 4 out of 9 justices vote to hear the case. So, in a certain way, the justices do hand-pick cases that they want to hear and rule on. Don’t be fooled into thinking justices with certain agendas don’t get together and vote to grant cert to cases they want to have a say in.


34 posted on 01/25/2008 6:30:31 PM PST by RebekahT ("Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan)
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