To: LongIslandConservative
Well, the hot potato is still being passed around.
Will it get tossed?
The fact Thomas and Scalia have distributed it speaks well for the merits. Otherwise they would have been round filing them as fast as they came in.
7 posted on
12/08/2008 11:35:09 AM PST by
IrishCatholic
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To: IrishCatholic
Will it get tossed?Yes.
The fact Thomas and Scalia have distributed it speaks well for the merits. Otherwise they would have been round filing them as fast as they came in.
That argument makes no sense at all.
22 posted on
12/08/2008 11:46:30 AM PST by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: IrishCatholic
The fact Thomas and Scalia have distributed it speaks well for the merits. It does no such thing.
They could just as well be passing it along as a courtesy to another justice who has an interest in certain technical aspects, or just in order to get an internal confirmation of 9-to-0 against it.
We'll never know, but it says ntohing about the merits.
172 posted on
12/08/2008 3:24:36 PM PST by
sam_paine
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