Texasgrillchef
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Many people will contact (Email, phone call, fax, snail mail, facebook etc) their elected officials and let them know how they feel and think about various issues that are going on in the world. Sometimes to voice their support for or against some current issue. Including but not limited current bills under consideration. They also request of them that certain bills get introduced for future laws. All of this sometimes has no impact, sometimes this has a huge impact on influencing the elected official to take a certain action.
When cases are petitioned with SCOTUS various groups as well as certain individuals can file briefs in support of either the Petitioner or the Respondant requesting SCOTUS to accept or deny the petition.
What is virtually unheard of is US Citizens contacting SCOTUS.
So my question is simple. What effect if any would it have on SCOTUS if they received not just a few contacts, such as letters, but litterly millions of letters of which were either requesting a petition to be heard or denied.?
While i would find it rather easy for them to ignore a few thousand letters of request one way or the other. I would find it very hard for them to ignore millions of letters coming in constantly over a short period of time. (Think of the scene in "Miracle of 34th street") Human nature being what it is. We are all human, and id find it hard pressed for it not to sit in the back of their minds during their conference times when they are discussing whether or not to grant cert or deny. Even so that doesn't mean that they would take those letters seriously or not.
When cases are petitioned with SCOTUS various groups as well as certain individuals can file briefs in support of either the Petitioner or the Respondant requesting SCOTUS to accept or deny the petition.
What is virtually unheard of is US Citizens contacting SCOTUS.
So my question is simple. What effect if any would it have on SCOTUS if they received not just a few contacts, such as letters, but litterly millions of letters of which were either requesting a petition to be heard or denied.?
While i would find it rather easy for them to ignore a few thousand letters of request one way or the other. I would find it very hard for them to ignore millions of letters coming in constantly over a short period of time. (Think of the scene in "Miracle of 34th street") Human nature being what it is. We are all human, and id find it hard pressed for it not to sit in the back of their minds during their conference times when they are discussing whether or not to grant cert or deny. Even so that doesn't mean that they would take those letters seriously or not.