Error Correction

The SCOTUS doesn’t do it. Except when it does.

And when is that? When some poor schmuck gets relief on habeas corpus in a federal court. The SCOTUS has been, and remains, anxious to overturn any such ruling.

And it just did so again this morning. 8-1 vote. Sotomayor dissents but doesn’t say anything.

It is quite a remarkable thing, really. Breath taking, this long standing SCOTUS penchant to eradicate the Great Writ in federal courts, disregarding their own rules to do so. See SCOTUS Rule 10:

A petition for a writ of certiorari is rarely granted when the
asserted error consists of erroneous factual fndings or the
misapplication of a properly stated rule of law

But when the government is the Petitioner and it’s a hen’s teeth rare habeas grant the Justices are all over the facts in order to summarily reverse. Last time it was the 9th circuit. This time it’s the 6th.

This is one of those silent outrages. You’d think our press would be all over this kind of thing but they aren’t.

Maybe more on this later.