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It's not surprising if you understand the purpose of the Supreme Court in the US. The SC exists to decide areas of law that are ambiguous or poorly tested. As
by luma 5y ago
It's not surprising if you understand the purpose of the Supreme Court in the US. The SC exists to decide areas of law that are ambiguous or poorly tested. As a result, the only cases that make it to the SC are ones where there isn't a clear decision to be made, because if it were more clear-cut, the decision would have already been made in a lower court.
This is the system working as intended.
- alistairSH 5y agoExactly, there's almost 100% selection bias in the cases heard by the Court. By definition, the case has already been interpreted differently by different lower courts OR there's a matter of some urgency on the national stage (election challenges being a recent example) OR something else of extreme interest. The Court is asked to review somewhere around 7000 cases every year. Of those, they hear maybe 150.