Steve Vladeck
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@ksvesq’s husband; father of daughters; C.A. Wright Chair in Federal Courts @UTexasLaw; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN; NYT bestseller: https://t.co/FmqTSPSMH3; #LGM
26-09-2011 11:07:46
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On the question of whether #SCOTUS requires four votes or five votes to grant a petition for certiorari 'before judgment,' here's a 1985 memorandum from then-Justice Rehnquist suggesting that the Court had agreed in 1983 that the answer was *five*:
supremecourtopinions.wustl.edu/files/opinion_…
