To get a case before SCOTUS you have to file a writ of certiorari.
Then if you can get 4 justices to agree to hear the case they “grant cert”.
I hear it is 5 if it is a dispute between the states.
They can decide if it is a waste of their time or not. Sounds like all of them
thought this would be a waste of their time and cert was not granted.
Two of them thought that the primary jurisdiction issue should have allowed the
states to get heard but even those two thought it was a waste of time.
So why hear the case at all if it was going to be a unanimous decision against
Texas?
The other cases joined more to try to make the case that any state v state case
should get automatically heard. I guess that test failed from their
perspective.
I actually asked from a writ of cert once. Don’t fully recall the case. Had
to do with telephone rates and the circuit court would not grant us an en banc
hearing so we appealed.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 9:05 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots
That's the way I read it too. The bottom line is that all the states have
sovereignty relative to each other, and no state is above another (or below).
The only time there is an issue is when there is some boundary-related issue
that requires a higher authority (and Texas doesn't border any of the defendant
states). So the "ruling" (not sure if that's the correct term is that Texas has
no standing in this case. AKA pound sand.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 12/14/2020 5:23 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
There's a school of thought that since their jurisdiction is exclusive, the
Supreme Court has an obligation to hear any case a state brings no matter how
flawed it might be. Their feeling is that since there's no higher power to
appeal to, that they have to hear the case so that it gets heard. Thomas and
Alito are in that school of thought, and that's why they expressed the opinion
they did.
My reading of it is that the only disagreement was whether to tell Texas to
go away before or after they're allowed to file their complaints. Either way,
the court unanimously told Texas to pound sand. The only way this is unclear
is if someone willfully interprets it that way. If someone is inclined it
interpret it that way, then they would have been unhappy with any outcome.
There was absolutely zero chance that the Supreme Court of the US would
overturn one state's election at the behest of another. Especially based on
the argument that "their election processes hurt us." If they did that, then
similar suits would happen every 4 years henceforth.
On 12/12/2020 10:31 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
We need to have scotus do their damn job and get case law. If they keep
punting for politics it will get stupid. This team when one snaps out you dont
get some cross dresser popping through a crowd to bike lock someone and
scurrying off, you get Oklahoma city. They need to shut the shit down or pay
the cost of the product they purchased.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 6:24 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
Deep within this troll, the force runs.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 12/12/2020 4:10 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Yes, thank you.
I don’t know what was more bizarre, that music video, or Chuck being
the one who sent it. Who knew.
From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:55 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 12/12/2020 2:55 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Is there a mind blown emoji? -----Original Message-----From: AF
mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AFSent: Saturday,
December 12, 2020 4:30 PMTo: af@af.afmug.comCc: Chuck McCown
mailto:chuck@go-mtc.comSubject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots
https://youtu.be/yModCU1OVHY -----Original Message-----From: Bill PrinceSent:
Saturday, December 12, 2020 3:28 PMTo: af@af.afmug.comSubject: Re: [AFMUG] OT:
Not all Texans are idiots First place I heard it was from Molly Wood on Make Me
Smart:
https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en<https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/12/2020 12:03 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:I was
not familiar with the term banana-pants. A Google search yields lots of
results, mostly photos of banana pants, as well as some songs, none of which
shed much light on the subject for me. I assume it means cra-cra?
-----Original Message-----From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of
Robert AndrewsSent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 1:42 PMTo:
af@af.afmug.comSubject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots This was
similar to how the south leaders hauled all the regular people into the civil
war. Yes they did a good job stirring things up before. On 12/12/2020 11:19
AM, Bill Prince wrote:The people who should really be looking at this are the
citizens in the states who think it's appropriate for their AG to sue another
state's election results. The suit was what I would call banana-pants.
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/11/2020 4:19 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:All
these craven lackeys got a big fuck you from the SCOTUS... --AF mailing
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