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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (87470)	11/25/2000 6:25:19 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

r 4 or 5 votes needed to grant certiorari in this case. here it says 4, but as a practical matter(i don't agree with the reasoning)5. The announcement was an ominous sign for the Democrats. The high court has almost complete discretion on what cases it considers, and four of the nine justices must agree to grant a petition for review. Several legal scholars said the justices would not have taken the case, George W. Bush vs. Palm Beach Canvassing Board, 00-836, if the initial briefs had not caused a majority to lean in Bush's favor--although all cautioned that the justices often change their view of a case after studying additional briefs and arguments. "They wouldn't have granted review unless they were going to reverse" the Florida Supreme Court's ruling, said UC Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo, who served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A Fifth Vote Is Likely There Although only four justices need to agree to have a case considered, "usually, in a case like this, four justices wouldn't" vote to take a case "unless they thought they had a fifth vote," Yoo said. "Think of if from the point of the four: You would bring the U.S. Supreme Court into a highly contentious battle, and you would lose 5-4 and damage the prestige of the court," he added.