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longship

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17. The "heads up" never, ever happens.

Reply to unblock (Reply #16)

Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:36 PM

Jun 2012

If somebody at SCOTUS leaked, they would be fired. If it was a Justice, they would be impeached.

And if anybody from Executive contacted anybody at SCOTUS on a case it would result in somebody properly losing their job. That could be interpreted as an attempt at obstruction, and rightly so. They are a fucking court of law. There are strict protocols for talking to them during deliberations. Obama can't just ring up a Justice and ask him/her, "How's it going?"

Why don't people in this thread understand this?

And this is also true of Congress critters.

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White House probably knows outcome of health care case before Supreme Court. [View all] michaelcobb Jun 2012 OP

No one knows dsc Jun 2012 #1

Separation of Powers? longship Jun 2012 #2

Would a heads up be impeachable? SoutherDem Jun 2012 #7

How would they ever prove it? michaelcobb Jun 2012 #8

how on earth would that be even remotely considered an impeachable offense? unblock Jun 2012 #10

Collusion, or interference would be impeachable longship Jun 2012 #15

there's nothing "colluding" or "interfering" with the someone at the supreme court unblock Jun 2012 #16

The "heads up" never, ever happens. longship Jun 2012 #17

people don't understand this because you're making it up. unblock Jun 2012 #18

The tradition is because of the separation of powers longship Jun 2012 #20

a heads up from the court is to the saturday night massacre as a tap on the shoulder is to murder unblock Jun 2012 #22

Fine. Cite an example. longship Jun 2012 #26

we're getting way off topic, but here are some examples: unblock Jun 2012 #34

I agree longship Jun 2012 #35

How is advanced notice of a decision an abuse of power? Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 #24

First, SCOTUS doesn't leak. longship Jun 2012 #27

That you know of. Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 #30

I am glad you agree that there's no evidence for leak claims longship Jun 2012 #31

Conspiracies? Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 #32

Madam Speaker seems pretty confident.n/t monmouth Jun 2012 #3

I am not even trying to forecast SoutherDem Jun 2012 #4

How does it "sound to" you? FarLeftFist Jun 2012 #5

Love it. Being Republican means never being wrong. michaelcobb Jun 2012 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author unblock Jun 2012 #9

The W.H. can probably guess, like we can. The ct is 5-4 conservative. It has voted Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #11

I would disagree about that. kenny blankenship Jun 2012 #25

+a billion magical thyme Jun 2012 #28

You're being too logical. Conservatives are against the mandate... Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #33

Thanks MIRT! And I didn't even alert: freshwest Jun 2012 #12

I see that you have not survived the powers of MIRT. MineralMan Jun 2012 #13

Anthony Kennedy is not just a conservative but an arch-conservative TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #14

The mandate isn't the only means to fund the other provisions Shrek Jun 2012 #19

probably? that's your assertion? spanone Jun 2012 #21

My hope is that the mandate was the contentious part GarroHorus Jun 2012 #23

Are you talking about the Supreme Court who selected Bush as President? lunatica Jun 2012 #29