POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Amicus Curiae, Stolen Valor
29 Aug 2016
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Scotus doesn"t take cases that you think were called unfair, but they do take cases that are significant to the country as a whole. Unless it"s an unusual circumstance, they will give more time, like for the affordable health care act they had 2 days. That job remains until another is appointed to the court: the cj go first, no arguments or anything, they just say what their initial vote is. Then from there they go in descending order based on seniority. Then the cj adds up the votes, if he is in the majority of the vote then the cj decides who will write the opinion of the court. You have to get permission from the court to do it: scotus almost has no power to enforce its decisions, the power on contempt is something that the lower courts have but scotus doesn"t.
