When the SC was first organized it only had 6 members, at one time, 11.
Many votes are 5-4 now.
5-4 was pretty much the expected result either way it went. So while it bothers me to some degree, it’s mitigated to a large degree.
This is completely 100% factually incorrect if you’re referring to the US Postal Service.
From CERTIORARI Strategies, Saul Brenner:
¶8 Supreme Court scholars have identified two strategies used by the individual justices in their reviews of certiorari voting. The first is known as the “error correction strategy.”According to this strategy, a justicewhowants to reverse the decision of the lower court will vote to grant certiorari, while a justice who is happy with the lower court decision will vote to deny certiorari.
¶9 S. Sidney Ulmer compared the certiorari vote with the final vote on the
merits for eleven justices who served on the Court during the 1947 through 1956
terms.10 For eight of these justices, he discovered a statistically significant relationship between their vote to grant certiorari and their vote to reverse the decision of the lower court, and between their vote to deny certiorari and their vote to affirm.11 The associations between these votes, however, were low. Baum was unimpressed with Ulmer’s findings and argued that they did not support the error correction strategy.
The purpose was to see WHO voted for Certiorari and how they voted on the final adjudication, for or against, interesting.
Since I obviously wasn’t referring to the USPS, that’s a “completely 100%” pointless nitpick. It’s also wrong. 19 USC § 1583 authorizes the opening of international mail for customs purposes. Various federal statutes allow postal inspectors and law enforcement to open domestic mail with a warrant, but that’s neither here nor there.
According to what I was being told on the news, most of the e-mail traffic in the world goes through US servers, so how do I get to not do so?
If it were so obvious, I wouldn’t have made the comment I did. You made some vague comment that sounded like you could have been referring to pretty much any postal service. Which is why I specified, “If you’re referring to the US” in my response. I like to write clearly enough so that people can understand WTF I’m talking about. Your mileage may vary.
Also, 19 USC § 1583 applies only to packages weighing over 16 ounces or to packages that have not been sealed. It does not apply to “letters,” unless your letter is unsealed or weighs more than 16 ounces.
Fair enough. Doggo lives somewhere in the Far East, but if you didn’t participate in the thread about Asian chicks you probably wouldn’t have guessed that.
Hell if I know, but I imagine your ISP does not have US servers.