Are Supreme Court opinions final? Apparently not so much.

Hotair ^ | 05/26/2014 | Jazz Shaw

[PapaBear3625]

I don't know how you came to that conclusion. All nine justices meet on Fridays for a group conference to vote on which cases they will hear. They are alone in conference. No law clerks allowed. It takes four votes for a case to be accepted.

Do the Supremes actually read the briefs in their entirety, or do they read the summaries the clerks have prepared? If the latter, the clerks, while not physically present, have a lot of influence on which cases are heard.

[BuckeyeTexan]

We don’t know. The conferences are totally secret.

http://www.supremecourthistory.org/how-the-court-works/how-the-court-work/the-justices-conference/

[SeaHawkFan]

I don't know how you came to that conclusion. All nine justices meet on Fridays for a group conference to vote on which cases they will hear. They are alone in conference.

They vote on petitions, which in almost every case, they have not even read themselves.

[Mr Rogers]

Over 100 Supreme Court cases have reversed prior decisions. So yes, as should be well known, the Supreme Court can and does overrule previous decisions. It is far from rare.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Not according to former law clerks.

[PghBaldy]

I posted the NYT article. Did not see your thread. Sorry. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3161631/posts?page=1

[GeronL]

It is settled law when leftists say it is