It’s always weird to see when courts go so much against everyone (even the prosecutors?) so they can kill someone. The bloodlust…
It’s bloody expensive to grant an appeal - hence the hesitation, especially since SCOTUS is not actually ruling law anymore
Every year about 8,000 people file their cases for cert at the Supreme Court. Each year they grant cert on about 80. Roughly 1/1000 odds. Those about 8,000 cases include cases that have also previously filed in past years without cert.
Amicus briefs are not uncommon. They often don’t grant cert when there are no novel legal questions. The Supreme Court simply doesn’t not have the ability to hear every appeal. Them not granting cert in any case should not be taken as a dispositive.
Well good to know. I thought they had to choose to take up a case to reject it, but it makes sense that they would be and to reject it outright without having to hear it.
The pro-life party!
SCROTUS
