>Very possible. The court is essentially an imperial force now, as some spectators have said. Oh, good grief. "4 justices have to agree to hear the case" = gra

>Very possible. The court is essentially an imperial force now, as some spectators have said. Oh, good grief. "4 justices have to agree to hear the case" = granting certiori, as said elsewhere in this thread. It is the completely normal and usual way of the court deciding whether to hear a case at all. I know that you got the "imperial" adjective from breathless recent media, but if you don't know even the basics of how the court works, refrain from commenting.