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To: OldDeckHand

I hope you are right. Despite the desire to see Obamacare stricken from the books at th earliest possible moment, the MOST important thing is that the Supreme Court does, sooner of later, strike it down. I think the FL case is much stronger and, in any case, there is a good reason to go through the appeals process - so we can see exactly the case the DOJ intends to make. My recollection is that oral arguments before the Supreme Court are limited to about an hour per side - including the questions interjected by the judges. I believe we need the experience of the appeals process to tune our arguments so they can be made as briefly as possible before the 2 Obama appointees start eating up time with irrelevant questions. Losing the VA case (which I think is likely on a technicality) puts us in a terrible position when FL makes it to the Court.


45 posted on 04/15/2011 10:40:51 AM PDT by In Maryland ("Impromptu Obamanomics is getting scarier by the day ..." - Caroline Baum)
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To: In Maryland
I wouldn't get too hung-up on the Oral arguments - where each side is allowed a short period for an opening statement, followed immediately by :30 minutes of questioning, and then a short rebuttal time varying between 5-10 minutes. Many professional court-watchers opine that they're wholly worthless; Just a show for the Justices themselves. That's the reason Thomas doesn't participate.

What really matters to the Court are the appellate records and the Amicus briefs that are filed, which are all generally read before oral arguments.

47 posted on 04/15/2011 10:59:03 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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