…My educated guess from this notice is that ORDERS granting or denying certiorari review will be issued Monday. OPINIONS in certain cases will be issued next Thursday.
SCOTUS has very little transparency in how it functions. In my opinion, ALL courts should be considerably more transparent. I believe public confidence in the judiciary would increase as transparency increases.
After all, We The People pay their salaries and let them wear fancy black robes to convey in part that Justices are important,
Are they that special and important? Yes and no. We need referees to honestly enforce the rules but the game belongs to the players, not the referees.
Judges and Justices are no better than any one of us. They are people too. We just let them be referees.
Maybe the answer is to establish courts that truly answer to We The People. Perhaps a network of “Courts of the People” where disagreements can quickly and fairly resolved without the expense and delay that results from lawyers being involved.
Then we could enact my “Modified Shakespearean” rule. We could get rid of 95% of the lawyers. Wow. Wouldn’t that make our country less litigious and more civil to each other?
Maybe its my advocacy for serious reforms in the legal profession that has the State Bar of Georgia up in arms against me?!?
Uh oh, fewer lawyers would reduce the Bar’s revenue from license fees. etc.
Lawyers Club of Atlanta would also have fewer members and could not serve as much free booze and fancy foods at its annual “Holiday” party . . .
Just sayin’ . . .
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
The Supreme Court does not want Americans citizens to have any rights, such as the right to Transparency on all of their cases. Closed Door Policy should immediately start an automatic REMOVAL of the Chief Justice who is the ‘idea man’ for this insult to those who pay their salaries. Door closed all day? They get 1/3 pay. Closed 2 days? They get no salary and 2 masks to wear all day every day and some cleaning/disinfecting supplies.
Out here in real life, employees would not have the option of keeping all citizens OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. They would not receive pay for secret meetings that involve citizens. End of story. Start legal processes against all of them, the first day they have an excuse not to obey the rules. That is just REAL LIFE. The person in charge will be responsible for obeying all laws according to the Constitution.
I like that idea of “courts of the people”. I know most of us could judge more fairly than I have heard from many of them.
I looked at that very page yesterday myself, when we heard nothing in the news about a decision. If they don’t take the cases, it proves that SCOTUS is irredeemable and must be taken out.