Word: certiori
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Washington with borax and let the sports try the substitute a la Saks-Fifth Avenue. On to lunch at Eliot with G.'s tutor who is in the government department and now looks upon Roosevelt as the very plague. Much talk about the process, minority decision, and writs of certiori until my head did sorely ache. A most sensible and provident plan was suggested by G. who would have the Chief Justice ask Congress to pass a bill creating new Presidents for all those over fifty-five who will not retire. Indeed, it would seem that one poor President...
...hardly the place to begin. It is like tying a tourniquet below the wound. For the Supreme Court has notably kept up to its schedule, especially in the last twenty-five years. Many cases, as Mr. Roosevelt points out have been refused review by the court. But writs of certiori have never been denied because the calendar forbade: cases have been turned down only because the court could see no probable or possible shadow of doubt in the decisions of the circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would...
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