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[quote=Anonymous]PP is going a bit overboard and has his facts wrong.

First, this was the last week of arguments for the year but the Court will continue issuing decisions until about the last week in June. So that's two full months.

Second, 70 total cases were argued this year, of which 32 remain to be decided. Scalia has written 6 majority opinions, which is more than all the Justices other than Sotomayor, who also wrote 6. Ordinarily they opinions are pretty evenly distributed, so Scalia probably has 2 more majority opinions at best.

Third, the Court does receive around 10,000 certiorari petitions per year, but about 8,000 - 8,500 of them come from prisoners who are acting as their own lawyer and have no merit whatsoever.  Also, all of the Justices except Alito participate in the "cert pool," which works this way: one law clerk reads each cert petition and writes a memo for all the Justices in the pool, recommending whether to grant or deny. The Justices meet in conference every week or two during the Term, but they do not discuss every cert. petition. Instead, theChief circulates a "discuss list" and other Justices can add cases to the list. If it's not on that list, the case is denied without any discussion.

I'm not saying being a Justice is an easy job or that they should never make mistakes. But don't make it out to be a sweatshop either. It's an embarrassing mistake, but less embarrassing than some things the Court has done on purpose.

(Cou-itizen'sunited-gh)[/quote]

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