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« on: May 27, 2005, 04:15:17 PM » |
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True: A Chief Justice is more of an honorarium than an actual position of authority; his rulings will not have any more force than any other (if speaking for the majority). So nominating Scalia for CJSC will not make the Supreme Court more conservative..or originalist, whatever.
The true 'power' of the CJSC is purely administrative. In the mold of a W H Taft, a CJ Scalia would determine, solely, which cases to hear from selected jurisdictions, and when to schedule them on the calandar. But that's still small control over as reckless an institution as the Supreme Court has become recently.
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