You influence the outcome of a case....
....by merely getting it on the calendar.
Has a dumber sentence ever been uttered?
Seems reasonable. There’s a ginormous backlog of cases. Moving the file to the top is shady.
shareNothing was said about moving it to the top. The statement was just as I wrote it.
shareYou’re right you and they didn’t say anything about moving it to the top just getting it on the calander. It’s still shady for this to occur due to a President’s chief of staff intervening. It calls the entire case into question. Justice is meant to be blind although in practice I fear it often is not.
shareWhile I'll concede the method to which it would have been added to the calendar could have been shady, the outcome is in no way influenced. The justices still need to hear arguments and make a decision. The fact that they're hearing the case won't influence that decision. There whole existence is based on hearing cases on their calendar. They don't take into consideration how the case arrived on the calendar.
shareMaybe they don’t but the politicians and media will and theyll scream bloody murder till the cows come home.
shareAll that very well might be true. But that's not what were talking about. We're talking about the fact a chief justice said getting a case on the calendar has already influenced its outcome.
shareHa I guess a Chief Justice deciding to go to the Oval Office to complain about a potential conflict is ironically adding to the conflict. Did he have to do this in person?
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