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To: McGruff

A Truth or a Tweet is informal.

The Speaker of the House should send an official letter to the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice will have to respond.

Senate leadership and state Governors also should send official letters.


75 posted on 06/02/2024 7:43:28 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant; McGruff
The Speaker of the House should send an official letter to the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice will have to respond.

Senate leadership and state Governors also should send official letters.

It would be a waste of time, effort and paper.

Ever since President Washington asked Chief Justice John Jay to provide an advisory opinion in 1793, the Court has told everyone that the Court has no authority to issue advisory opinions. Its authority is to decide cases or controversies brought to the Court.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S2-C1-4-2/ALDE_00013564/

The Supreme Court produced the second early precedent against advisory opinions in 1793. In that year, President George Washington, seeking to determine the United States’ legal rights and obligations in relation to ongoing conflicts between the European powers of France and Britain, sent a letter through his Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, to the Justices of the Supreme Court. The letter asked if the Justices would be willing to render opinions on a number of legal questions of considerable difficulty that do not give a cognizance of them to the tribunals of the country. The Justices declined to provide an answer. Chief Justice John Jay drafted a response to the President explaining that [t]he lines of separation drawn by the Constitution between the three departments of government . . . and our being judges of a court in the last resort . . . are considerations which afford strong arguments against the propriety of our extrajudicially deciding the questions alluded to. Although the letter was not an official opinion of the Court, the Court has since cited it as a major source of the rule against advisory opinions.

115 posted on 06/02/2024 10:17:17 PM PDT by woodpusher
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