| Subject: Re: [EL] queston about US Supreme Court procedure |
| From: EDWARD FOLEY |
| Date: 3/12/2011, 6:05 AM |
| To: "richardwinger@yahoo.com" <richardwinger@yahoo.com> |
| CC: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
| > It is unusual for the US Supreme Court to put a particular case on a conference, and then take no action at that conference, but then to fail to quickly put it on a future conference? > 10-367 and 10-821, which are really the same case, were on conferences for each of the last three Fridays (not counting today, which is also Friday, of course). At the first two conferences, the court took no action and re-listed the case for the next conference. But at the March 4 conference, the court took no action and hasn't re-listed it for the upcoming March 18 conference. > Is that normal or unusual? > 10-367 and 10-821 are about the special US Senate election in Illinois last year. Illinois government is asking the US Supreme Court to rule that the 7th circuit should not have forced the state to hold a special election. Roland Burris, who had been sitting in that seat, is asking the US Supreme Court to rule that given that there was to be a special election, he should have been allowed to run. |