(a) The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.
(b) An alternative writ or rule nisi may be issued by a justice or judge of a court which has jurisdiction.
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mrsmith wrote: I would be very surprised if Apple successfully defies the All Writs Act written and passed by the Founders of this nation.
Apple doesn't have anything to be searched or seized, so what are they going to issue a Warrant or Writ for? As I understand it, Apple has been ordered by a federal judge to build something that doesn't exist yet.
How does the AWA make that agreeable to the law?
The AWA empowers the courts to issue writs in furtherance of their efforts.
For instance to compel a manufacturer of safes to provide ‘safe-cracking’ information to the police. IE: the combination if they know it, or the details needed to effectively open the safe physically.
The most notorious use was compelling St Louis to raise it’s taxes to integrate it’s schools.