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  • Why do the courts play this silly delay game

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 27 22:02:12 2023
    Why do the courts play this silly delay game on a case that only has one
    side.

    trump claims he can do anything he wants as prez. That's ridiculous. If
    that were the case, Joe Biden could have him arrested, could confiscate
    his assets, and then shoot him to death.

    I can see giving the plaintfiff some time to file arguments, but we all
    know there are no good arguments. So why does the news say that, IF
    they act quickly, they can have a decision in 2 weeks. Why should it
    take more than 2 days?

    Why did the USSC deny cert. Do they imagine that the appeals court will
    find some good argument that they can't find? Or are they trying to
    delay things so that he'll be nominated and elected berfore the trial?

    In general there are many serious cases where people have a critical
    need for an answer that take iiac 6 months from the time they are argued
    until the decision is announced. I know sometimes they have to discuss
    it and try to persuede one another, but I'm sure that many times they
    know what they will thing by the time they read the briefs and certaily
    after the oral arguments. Still they keep people waiting a long time.
    Is it just to look important?

    I might not have asked these questions 20 years ago, but and I never
    would have even though what follows 25 years ago, but the court has been
    going to the dogs for decades.

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  • From Jethro_uk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 28 08:24:39 2023
    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-maybe-loss/

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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Dec 28 10:06:52 2023
    "micky" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

    Why do the courts play this silly delay game on a case that only has one >side.

    trump claims he can do anything he wants as prez. That's ridiculous. If
    that were the case, Joe Biden could have him arrested, could confiscate
    his assets, and then shoot him to death.

    I can see giving the plaintfiff some time to file arguments, but we all
    know there are no good arguments. So why does the news say that, IF
    they act quickly, they can have a decision in 2 weeks. Why should it
    take more than 2 days?

    Why did the USSC deny cert. Do they imagine that the appeals court will
    find some good argument that they can't find? Or are they trying to
    delay things so that he'll be nominated and elected berfore the trial?



    Maybe because the USSC has its own workload and backlog of cases to get through, including the likelihood of having to take the Colorado primary
    ballot case on an expedited basis. The SC can't take every case, and the normal procedure is to let cases play out in lower courts before they step
    in.


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  • From Stuart O. Bronstein@21:1/5 to Rick on Thu Dec 28 23:36:55 2023
    "Rick" <[email protected]> wrote in news:umkbsd$f3bh$[email protected]:

    Why did the USSC deny cert. Do they imagine that the appeals court
    will find some good argument that they can't find? Or are they
    trying to delay things so that he'll be nominated and elected berfore
    the trial?

    Maybe because the USSC has its own workload and backlog of cases to
    get through, including the likelihood of having to take the Colorado
    primary ballot case on an expedited basis. The SC can't take every
    case, and the normal procedure is to let cases play out in lower
    courts before they step in.

    Now that's just wrong. Up to the middle or late part of the 20th century,
    the Supreme Court was taking about 100 cases per year. These days it's
    about half of that. They could do a lot more than they are currently
    doing.


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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 29 21:23:40 2023
    "Stuart O. Bronstein" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

    "Rick" <[email protected]> wrote in news:umkbsd$f3bh$[email protected]:

    Why did the USSC deny cert. Do they imagine that the appeals court
    will find some good argument that they can't find? Or are they
    trying to delay things so that he'll be nominated and elected berfore
    the trial?

    Maybe because the USSC has its own workload and backlog of cases to
    get through, including the likelihood of having to take the Colorado
    primary ballot case on an expedited basis. The SC can't take every
    case, and the normal procedure is to let cases play out in lower
    courts before they step in.

    Now that's just wrong. Up to the middle or late part of the 20th century,
    the Supreme Court was taking about 100 cases per year. These days it's
    about half of that. They could do a lot more than they are currently
    doing.



    I don't have any stats on this, but I think the average worker today
    probably works far fewer hours per week than they did 20 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me if the Court is just following the national trend on
    this.

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