Something interesting happened over the weekend. Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the 9 Supreme Court Justices was found dead in a ranch in Texas. Within hours, while the authorities were still trying to find a priest to administer his last rites, the Republican leaders and the Presidential contenders said in unison that they will not allow President Obama to nominate a replacement and it will be the new US President that will nominate Scalia’s successor. In other words, since the Republicans control the Senate and a nominee needs their approval, we will not have the 9th Supreme Court Justice until the spring of 2017.
So what happens when the Court is evenly divided among 4 liberal and 4 conservative judges? You get a 4-4 tie, in which case the decision of the lower court stands. One of the 13 cases that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear by June of this year is the case of Bank Markazi v. Peterson. This is a lawsuit by 1,300 American victims of Islamic Republic of Iran’s terrorism which they won and were awarded $1.75 billion in damages. Bank Markazi’s assets in Citibank were ordered frozen by Obama Administration in 2012 so that the payout can be made.
The IR Regime appealed the case to the 2nd District Court in NY and made the key argument that the US Congress overstepped its authorities by passing laws that facilitated this payout, in spite of legal precedence. The 2nd District Court rejected their argument. Bank Markazi appealed the case to the Supreme Court. The Court asked Obama Administration for their view. The Administration asked the Court not to review the ruling and let it stand. The Court did not agree. What this means was that a 5-4 conservative majority agreed with Bank Markazi on the narrow legal issue of Separation of Powers and wanted to overturn the lower court’s decision. The Court will be hearing the arguments soon and a decision will be forthcoming by June
Now with Justice Scalia gone and no replacement in the near future, the Court is looking at a 4-4 vote which means the decision of the lower court will be final and the 1,300 victims of the Regime’s terrorism will get their hands on the $1.75 billion award.
One of the people who will get justice is Steve Kerr, the coach of the NBA Golden State Warriors basketball team whose father Malcolm was shot and killed in Beirut in 1984 by the Islamic Jihad. He was the President of the American University of Beirut.
Go Warriors!
Brother faramarz
Reading your own very educational blog could you not see the weakness of un eslamic justice systrems? Could you not see the superiority of Eslamic jutice and way of life which answers the basic needs of humen beings so clearly?
Let me give you an example of true justice my brother.
"Allah made it clear that the husband cannot literally keep equality between two or more wives because they themselves cannot be equal in all respects. It is too much to demand from a husband that he should mete out equal treatment to a beautiful wife and to an ugly wife, to a young wife and to an old wife, to a healthy wife and to an invalid wife, and to a good natured wife and to an ill-natured wife. These and like things naturally make a husband more inclined towards one wife than towards the other."
(Maududi, vol. 1, p. 381)
Brother seyed.javad,
May the next Supreme Court Justice nominated by our next President Donald Trumb (no p's in Arabic) be a Muslim from a mosque in New Jersey!
This is a good read, which somehow and somewhat unintentionally proves the rottenness of the US highly politicized judiciary system.
Will the Supreme Court still be deciding cases before a new Justice is appointed?
Absolutely JJ. They are in session now and will work with 8 Justices until the 9th one is nominated and approved. The Court takes July through Sept. off and the new term starts on the 1st Monday in October.
بگو مرگ بر شاه
دهن كجى ملى تمومى نداره
الاغ هاى توده اى هنوز هم مزخرف هاى مشمئزشان را تكرار ميكنند
با وجود برداشتن تحريم ها شركت نفت نميتواند به مشترى هاى غربى نفت فروخته توليد را ازدياد كند. كشتيهاى غربى هنوز نميتوانند براى محموله هاى نفتى ايرانى بيمه شوند و بانك ها هم هنوز نميتوانند تضمين هاى مالى را بدهند
Faramarz
So what serves as a tie breaker? Penalty Kicks?:)
Doctor, if it's a tie, they go to extra time.
You got 3 liberal women on one side and 4 old conservative guys on the other!
Faramarz, odds are good for a favorable vote despite split court but in case of should'nt it be golden goal or sudden death? This thing has been in extra time for years.
I wish I had Seyed Javad's problem of worrying about fairness of which wife I make halal love with more often, proving superiority of islamic law; rather than worrying about rottenness of U.S. Judiciary in contrast to beautiful, just, unpolitical and kind slimic republic. Here are some fine examples https://eshtrak.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%DB%B3%DB%B8%DB%B9-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%B5%D8%AA/
Yes Shashoo, I think Black Hussein is way too smart for the Yahoos on the right and he will force them to accept his nominee.