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| 2006-12-07 |
 Case of the Dwindling Docket Mystifies the Supreme CourtWASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — On the Supreme Court’s color-coded master calendar, which was distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments. The courtroom, however, was empty on Wednesday, and for a simple reason: The court was out of cases. The question is, where have all the cases gone? |
| Posted by:.com |
| #5 Waiting for a Dem prez to promote a justice from 9th circus court and start writing law again! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-12-07 11:42 |
| #4 I've come to the conclusion that many in the U.S. truly do want the Supremes to butt out of making laws in this country. It really started prior to this, but Roe v. Wade (I know, expect the whirlwind here) pushed the activism full-tilt (note how the public STILL doesn't accept it as "settled case law" more than 30 years later). Add to that, the skyrocketing (attorney) costs to file lawsuits, and you could be seeing the effects of "litigation fatigue" in the courts. Of course, Congress slowing down the amount of new laws they push out helps. I truly think the Michael Newdow case and the Kelo case have swayed public opinion against the Federal courts. And, I'm all for decreased "oversight" by the Supremes, except for maybe the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco (the most overturned Appeals Circuit by the Supremes in the nation). Of course, just killing any enemies on the battlefield could take away the "Human Rights" groups last vestiages of cases before the Supremes. Of course, out of work nutty Judges and agenda-pushing attorneys is a feature, not a bug, in my book. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-07 11:26 |
| #3 Maybe Congress could get a clue and go back to meeting two days a week, four months a year. We'd all save money. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-12-07 11:12 |
| #2 Absolutely .com The Kelo decision made everybody say WTF were they thinking? When you're out of touch, you're out of the loop |
| Posted by: Warthog 2006-12-07 10:45 |
| #1 constitutional law scholars "are kind of bored these days." With the many, many challenges to First Amendment freedoms posed by Islamist infiltration and their useful idiots -- freedom of speech, of religion, of the press -- this breathtaking statement is testament to the astonishing complacency, ignorance, and ideological orthodoxy that has destroyed two generations of legal scholarship. In any case, good. The Supreme Court has a lot of butting out to do. So long as they're more interested in importing foreign law into the Constitution than defending its timeless principles, the fewer cases they take on, the better. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-07 08:35 |