One sentence: “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
Not surprising, but it feels like a final sigh of relief.
You just know that Trump is more tham a little extra butt hurt over this one. Good.
Republican hearing about the decision: “It was that traitor Roberts, I just know it! He ganged up with the liberals on the court to betray Trump in another 5-4 decision!”
[Remembers that there are six conservatives on the Court now, three appointed by Trump.]
[Small trickle of smoke begins to come out ears.]
He can nominate 'em but he can’t control 'em. I’m sure that chaps his ass.
Not only that, he cannot fire them. That has to burn him.
I’m shocked. Individual 1 tweeted an image of Coney Barrett with light flaring out of her eyes. No explanation, just the image. I guess she was expected to give him the election.
I think it’s this:
So stupid. “They got caught.” What the fuck is he talking about? So, so fucking stupid.
Question, if anybody here knows:
Does Alito’s referring it to the Court mean that Alito favored hearing it, or is that just standard procedure?
I don’t know. It sounds like he took the case and asked the rest of them and they said no?
Is this how cases are handed to the court to be evaluated?
Each justice oversees emergency appeals form a specific circuit court. Alito has the Pennsylvania court.
Based almost entirely off Twitter and random blogs it’s more like: “I vote no but I don’t think I should make the decision by myself. What do y’all think?”
I know that at least four of them have to vote to take a case. What I don’t know is whether one, on their own, can reject a case, by refusing to present it to the rest.
– puddleglum, just saw yours. Thanks; that explains why it came through Alito in particular, which was indeed part of what I was wondering.
But do all emergency appeals, or possibly all non-emergency ones also, have to be presented to the full Court for decision, as opposed to potentially being turned down by the justice who oversees that court?
– Jas09, just saw yours also. That would make sense; even if Alito could have turned it down on his own and wanted to turn it down, he might have wanted the backing of the rest of the court in this particular case. But I’m still curious as to whether he could have turned it down on his own.
Per the cited article -
The emergency petition from the lawmakers was addressed to Justice Samuel Alito, who has jurisdiction over the Pennsylvania courts. He referred it to the whole court, which issued the order.
So my reading would match with Jas09. He felt it was a hard no, and brought in everyone else to concur.
That doesn’t answer the question of whether he legally had to refer it to the whole court, or could have rejected it on his own.
It’s true, as I said, that even if he could have rejected it on his own he might have wanted to have the whole court do so in this particular case.
Well based on my experience with the Trumo administration it sounds to be like the caught the swamp the same way he caught Covid but in the case of the Swamp it was a incurable.
What I assume the person he retweeted was trying to say was that Trump won by such a huge margin that he forced the powers of evil to cheat so blatantly that Trump was able to catch them in the act, where once they land on the desk of Supreme court the light of Amy Coney Barrett will expose them for all the world to see, and all the Demonrats ill get arrested and Trump will raise to godhood.
This was, of course, tweeted before the Supreme Court rejected Trumps appeal.
Standard procedure. Having a single Justice to hear emergency appeals is pretty outdated with modern communications. The rest of the Court can overrule a single Justice on an emergency appeal anyways. It’s fairly rare for a Justice to rule on his or her own.
A good read on this point is the story of the Rosenberg’s execution when the day prior, when the Court was on summer recess, their attorneys knew that Justice Douglas was located out in the sticks with limited means of communication, and was likely sympathetic to them. They flew and then drove out to see him and he held court in a post office the next morning and…ruled in their favor. The Court overruled him pretty quickly and the Rosenbergs were executed.