SCCOTUS Act

This bill would create a Supreme Court Certification Panel made up of 13 federal appeals court judges, one randomly chosen from each federal court of appeals at the start of each Supreme Court term. The panel, rather than the Supreme Court, would review all petitions asking the Supreme Court to hear a case and decide whether to grant or deny them. Granting a petition would require agreement from 4 panel members and a written statement of reasons, and a granted petition would be treated as granted by the Supreme Court, which would then schedule oral argument. The panel would publish a yearly report with statistics on petitions reviewed, granted, and denied.

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Sponsors

• Jamie Raskin Democrat sponsor
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