Posted by Orin Kerr:
Opening Day:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_30-2007_10_06.shtml#1191249396
As [1]I once noted, following the Supreme Court is a bit following
professional baseball. Summer is the off-season, and the World Series
is the string of cases handed down in the last week of the Term at the
end of July. When the season ends, you either celebrate the victories
of your team or shrug and say, "well, there�s always next year"
(especially if you can get some promising new talent brought up from
the minors). You can't buy hot dogs and beer during oral argument, but
that's just a quirky tradition and may change under the new Chief
Justice.
[2]28 U.S.C. � 2 states that "the Supreme Court shall hold at the
seat of government a term of court commencing on the first Monday in
October of each year". This means today is kind of like opening day at
the Supreme Court. They really should have the President throw out the
first petition, but instead the day begins pretty much like all the
other ones. At least we can sing an appropriate song, to the tune of
"Take me out to the ball game":
Take me out to the law game
Take me out to the Court,
Grant some petitions for certiorari
I don't care if the opinions are scary!
Let me root, root, root for respondent,
If he doesn�t win activism's to blame,
For it's 3, 4, 5 votes to win at the Supreme Court game.
References
1. http://www.orinkerr.com/2006/06/30/the-end-of-the-october-2005-term/
2.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00000002----000-.html
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