McCain: If Clinton Wins, We'll Block All Her SCOTUS Nominees

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Conscripts.

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The existence of the court is in the constitution. The powers of the court are not.

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There wouldnā€™t happen to be a transcript anywhere, would there?

Between speed, lingual comprehension, ability to search, and ability to review, I find listening to spoken word to obtain information so much more frustrating than just reading it.

Itā€™s the reason, despite loving their content, that Iā€™m not caught up on YANSS.

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Can there just be a rule on the BBS that you canā€™t post any media longer than ten minutes to prove a point? And then only once per discussion?

Not that I havenā€™t already broken this rule, but still.

(Not picking on you @Wanderfound, but it does come up sometimes.)

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Age of Supreme Court Justices

Ginsburg (L): 83
Kennedy: (C, but likes to swing): 80
Breyer (L):78
Thomas Ā©:68
Alito Ā©: 66
Roberts Ā©: 61
Sotomayor (L):62
Kagan (L): 56

Thereā€™s no real demographic ā€œadvantageā€ that I can see.

says that Ginsburg has 36% chance of dying by 2021, and Kennedy, just 32 %.Breyer gets 27%, and Thomas, 17 percent

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They donā€™t appear to do transcripts, unfortunately (that podcast is done by the Radiolab team; the whole series is worth a listen).

TLDR version: although the court is established by the constitution, its powers are not. In the early days, it was rather vague exactly what the USSC was for, and the court made a number of strategic decisions (Marbury v. Madison most notably) in order to establish its own powers.

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