Does the Supreme Court decide cases?

One legal scholar said the Supreme Court has moved away from “deciding cases” and toward “answering discrete policy questions.” Kenny Holston/The New York Times We say that the Supreme Court decides cases, but that is not correct. It picks isolated questions to answer, often choosing among ones proposed by the parties or writing ones of its own.

Does the Supreme Court distorted the judicial process?

By choosing among and sometimes writing the questions the court agrees to answer, recent studies say, the justices have distorted the judicial process. One legal scholar said the Supreme Court has moved away from “deciding cases” and toward “answering discrete policy questions.” Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Why did Alito not trust the Supreme Court?

Setting aside the record of insincerity from Alito himself and the other conservative justices, the reason not to trust his disclaimer is that the Supreme Court has become an institution whose primary role is to force a right-wing vision of American society on the rest of the country.

Does the Supreme Court have a right to counsel?

But the court has drafted its own questions in any number of landmark cases, including ones on the right to counsel, the 2000 presidential election, campaign finance, same-sex marriage, class actions, recess appointments and immigration. At the same time, the Supreme Court has had little patience with lower courts that try something similar.