
Shadow Docket
What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
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Every year, literally thousands of people who have lost their legal ase asks the supreme court to hear their case. Of those thousands of cases, the supreme court decides to hear about 60 to 70 a year - not that many. The reason why we have all this incredible procedure and people weighing in is because it's kind of the court's legitimacy. They don't just decide. They're supposed to say, here's the lengthy legal reasoning behind why we're going to go ahead and say the case should come out in a particular way. Unless you've never heard of this term, you know in the reason why there's a non-romantical docket. No one ever practises
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