Sorry if this has already been posted, I will delete if it has. But I was dumbfounded to see this at the top of First Read onMSNBC. Now I know the right wing fringe groups have been pushing this crap but now it is getting play in "traditional" media. Slow news day? Crashing economy not enough?
Leave it to Clarence Thomas to help stir things up – the request was rejected by Justice Souter, but mister "no" vote himself seems to have stepped up to the plate – perhaps another chance to overturn an election? "Justice" Thomas has scheduled the case for conference.
Now a conference is the place where the justices decide what cases to hear, but it only takes four of them to schedule a
hearing:
The votes of four Justices at Conference... will suffice to grant certiorari and place the case on the court's calendar. If the Supreme Court grants certiorari (or the certified question or other extraordinary writ), then a briefing schedule is arranged for the parties to submit their briefs in favor of or against a particular form of relief.
Is it that hard to imagine the other three? Alito, Roberts and Scalia. Even if it is eventually defeated it is a distraction and a bunch of crap.
I am so sick of the radical right trying to impose its will on the rest of us.