Political Science 2244E Lecture Notes - Robert Bork, Channel One News
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It is a self reinforcing culture known as total justice there is always a responsible party that can be sued (it"s never your own fault, but someone else"s): article iii, constitution, forms of judiciary branch, but only created the supreme court (no state or federal district courts), congress will be empowered to make the federal courts system, which happened in 1789: Rule of four a case must meet the rule of four: four judges must decide that they want to hear the case, writ of certiorari, to be informed , an official request from the supreme court to lower courts, asking for all documentation from its previous hearings, oral arguments, approx. They pose questions to the lawyers and debate amongst themselves: question, pontification, jam session, written briefs, instrumental, documents after they have been sent to justices, and they make decisions.