[tpaine]

Consort wrote: I'll stick with my assertion.
They could have ruled either way or not ruled at all in the Bush/Gore general election, for example. They can do the same on any Constitutional matter that ever comes up
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So what?
The USSC has no power to enforce their rulings.

[Consort]

Then why did their ruling stick in the last general election or in any other of their decisions?

[Consort]

Under the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the marshal for the judicial district in which the Supreme Court of the United States sat was also responsible for serving that court. A statute of 1867 authorized the Supreme Court to appoint its own marshal.

[Consort]

The marshals and their deputies continue to provide protection to judges, witnesses, and jurors, and they continue to execute the lawful orders of the federal government in the judicial districts.