Topic: Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing

[Pandora]

The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice.

The revisions include “truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and the author of a new study examining the phenomenon.

... most changes are neither prompt nor publicized, and the court’s secretive editing process has led judges and law professors astray, causing them to rely on passages that were later scrubbed from the official record. The widening public access to online versions of the court’s decisions, some of which do not reflect the final wording, has made the longstanding problem more pronounced.

Unannounced changes have not reversed decisions outright, but they have withdrawn conclusions on significant points of law. They have also retreated from descriptions of common ground with other justices, as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor did in a major gay rights case.

RTWT.

H/T http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/

[AlanS]

But most changes can be found only by careful comparison or in the “change pages” that the court does not make public. Professor Lazarus obtained a year’s worth of the pages but was denied access to more. He said the court should consider posting them on its website.

“Of course the justices make mistakes,” he said. “And, of course, they can correct them. They just need to use a process that is more in keeping with the integrity and rigor of the process that produces the opinions in the first instance.”

Evidently, the Supremes have been hanging around politards too much.

[Glock32]

From the comments to Fran's article:

Tom said...
Just to be crudely succinct, we have to kill them all. Every one of them involved in this whole system.

This is the law of the jungle that they desire, so it SHALL be implemented.

If anyone can satisfactorily explain another option, there are probably 20-50 million Americans who would like to hear it.

But logic and cold rationality dictate no other course.
May 31, 2014 at 3:32 AM

Bingo. Bullseye.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Transmission intercept...

"Calling Al-Qaeda...calling Al-Qaeda. This is America One-Zero-Niner. We have a couple of new targets for your one-way flight path crew. Please check in with availability & payload designation. This is America One-Zero-Niner; over & out."

[Glock32]

Part 2 of this essay just posted.  http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-law-and-lawless-part-2-what-is-to.html

[Libertas]

From the comments to Fran's article:

Tom said...
Just to be crudely succinct, we have to kill them all. Every one of them involved in this whole system.

This is the law of the jungle that they desire, so it SHALL be implemented.

If anyone can satisfactorily explain another option, there are probably 20-50 million Americans who would like to hear it.

But logic and cold rationality dictate no other course.
May 31, 2014 at 3:32 AM

Bingo. Bullseye.

The Tree of Liberty demands the blood of tyrants!  It is dangerously parched!

[Libertas]

Part 2 of this essay just posted.  http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-law-and-lawless-part-2-what-is-to.html

Screw fleeing! (I think Fran outlines the folly of that and of changing anything from "within", so...)

BITS it will be or just enjoy your servitude...

[Alphabet Soup]

Last week I was in a room with these six very lefty contractors who had been assigned to me. At one point I turned to them and asked, "So how many of you doubt that, if a new ideological civil war were to come, I would have the slightest hesitation slaughtering the whole lot of you and then taking a very comfortable nap?"

OK, I only thought it....but it's the thought that counts.

 

[warpmine]

Last week I was in a room with these six very lefty contractors who had been assigned to me. At one point I turned to them and asked, "So how many of you doubt that, if a new ideological civil war were to come, I would have the slightest hesitation slaughtering the whole lot of you and then taking a very comfortable nap?"

OK, I only thought it....but it's the thought that counts.

 

[ChrstnHsbndFthr]

Last week I was in a room with these six very lefty contractors who had been assigned to me. At one point I turned to them and asked, "So how many of you doubt that, if a new ideological civil war were to come, I would have the slightest hesitation slaughtering the whole lot of you and then taking a very comfortable nap?"

OK, I only thought it....but it's the thought that counts.

 

I actually laughed out loud. Thank GOD for our social filter.

[Alphabet Soup]

Hey,  I kid! I kid!

 

[Libertas]

Uhh huh.   

(Pot says to kettle!)