Timeline for Can a judge/justice file a lawsuit and bring a case to their own court? What happens then?
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| Oct 21, 2018 at 23:00 | comment | added | D M | As for separation of powers, the Constitution says: "In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." - So Congress does have at least some ability to regulate what the Supreme Court can do. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 22:56 | vote | accept | user541686 | ||
| Oct 21, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | D M | 28 USC 451 - "The term 'justice of the United States' includes the Chief Justice of the United States and the associate justices of the Supreme Court." | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 22:54 | comment | added | user541686 | +1 awesome, thank you! To be clear, are you saying 28 USC 455 applies to US Supreme Court? It's not entirely clear to me since I think "justice" is also the term used for appellate courts, and it would seem like a potential separation of powers violation to have a law like that regarding the Supreme Court? But I don't know. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 19:05 | history | answered | D M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |