Posted on 12/08/2008 11:28:55 AM PST by LongIslandConservative
No. 08A469 Title: Cort Wrotnowski, Applicant v. Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Secretary of State
Docketed: Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Connecticut Case Nos.: (SC 18264)
~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nov 25 2008 Application (08A469) for stay and/or injunction, submitted to Justice Ginsburg. Nov 26 2008 Application (08A469) denied by Justice Ginsburg. Nov 29 2008 Application (08A469) refiled and submitted to Justice Scalia. Dec 8 2008 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 12, 2008. Dec 8 2008 Application (08A469) referred to the Court by Justice Scalia.
Thanks. Odd. An alternative explanation is that Scalia spoke up and said he’d rather look at the other case becaue he thought it was stronger.
Otherwise, why would Thomas bring it forward, and then not vote for it?
I suppose the question is naive. SCOTUS does what it pleases, no doubt.
ping
Did it get missing when the servers crashed?
I was surmising on the SCOTUS rejection thread that Scalia and Thomas may have gotten together and decided to take the Wrotnowski case instead because Donofrio said it had less baggage.
Aw man, they typo’d his area code - 202 should be 203.
I think that it and its thread got Zotted.
In another thread I was all over him re his posting date of today.
Then he did his Move on Thesis Thread and apparently got Zotted.
IMO, the issue is not ripe until AFTER the Electoral College votes on Dec 15. I get that from the specific wording in the 20th Amendment, “if the President elect shall have failed to qualify”. The ‘winner’ isn’t President elect until the EC votes.
If that’s true, then maybe Scalia was the No vote. IMO, he’s the the top Constitutional scholar on the Court. If the USSC were to rule before that, THEN we’d have a real Constitutional crisis, because we’d have no President after 1/19/09, and no proscribed way to get one. Too many electors are bound by State law to vote for Obama, who would be ineligible.
IMO. Add $4.75 to that, and you might get a Cappuccino at Starbucks or some such place. ;-)
Many thanks for the update, LucyT
Save the Constitution Ping.
ha ha ha...wish I could have seen the thread, i xcould use a good laugh.
Since the MSM is finally paying attention to the Supreme Court, this should be banner news shortly......
Actually, my understanding is that this isn’t always the case. A justice can vote to grant cert during conference, but that’s not always noted on the order list. Usually you’ll see notes about the four libs noting that they would grant cert on death penalty appeals.
The replies were rather brutal, quick and to the point.
That has been lacking re a lot of bs posted by the Moveon thugs pushing for Zer0 in the birthcertificate threads.
I just want to know why he has hidden almost every record of his life.
He is a sneaky person.
Including far too many so called freepers!
I might not be following you. My take is that: If the electors vote as instructed by the voters for Obama-Biden, and then Obama is disqualified, we get President Biden. But if this were to go down before Dec. 15, the electors would still be who they are and would get to vote for anyone, which would send the whole mess to the House and Senate for lack of a majority unless someone got to 270.
Yes, this thread is going a lot slower than the Donofrio Denied by SCOTUS thread. ;-)
“Same thing and will be the same result.”
I doubt that. At this point if there weren’t 4 votes to hear the case, I don’t think Justice Scalia would have submitted it to the conference. Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. Justice Kennedy gets to decide the case, as usual.
Also, they could just be going through them to clear them all out of the way before inauguration.
It seems though that at least scalia and thomas are sympathetic to the constitutional issues. question is whether or not roberts and alito are playing to DC political winds or not...my bet is that one of them is and that is why there was not 4 justices that wanted to hear the case ruled on today....or maybe one or more of these 4 justices are waiting for the strongest case to go conference so that they can run with that one...
Please Justice Scalia.....we just want to see the BC....he's going to be President no matter what, but SHOW US THE DAMN BC!!
Forza Scalia! Forza Cort!
Good news. Cort is a real hero. He drove all night from CT to DC to make sure the SCOTUS clerks did not foul up his paperwork. Leo said Cort’s case is a better.
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