Talk:Cert pool

Justice Powell's Role
With all due respect to Newyorkbrad, his earlier edits that Justice Powell helped instigate the cert pool were unsupported by citation, and find no support in The Brethren (which claims only that Powell thought it was a good idea). This is not to say that it's false, but we are now told that "[t]he threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is whether material is attributable to a reliable published source, not whether it is true." See Attribution. I think that policy is spinach, and renders Wikipedia absolutely worthless if taken in the slightest bit seriously, but nevertheless, it has apparently been accepted as "an official policy on the English Wikipedia." Lamentable. However, in view of it, I've therefore removed this statement from the introduction and changed the manner in which it is addressed in the main text to permit a citation required tag. Simon Dodd 00:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Clarity
In Powell's and Burger's view, particularly in light of the increasing caseload, it was redundant to have nine separate memoranda prepared for each petition and thus, despite objections from Justice William Brennan, Burger and Associate Justices Byron White, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and William Rehnquist began pooling their clerks

This sentence seems a bit unclear to me. I'd like to change it to

In Powell's and Burger's view, particularly in light of the increasing caseload, it was redundant to have nine separate memoranda prepared for each petition and thus, despite Justice William Brennan's objections, Burger and Associate Justices Byron White, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and William Rehnquist began pooling their clerks

but, due to the lack of clarity, I'm not sure that's the right interpretation. Thoughts? --mcpusc 03:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's exactly right, go for the change. Newyorkbrad 03:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Stevens' position
I am fairly certain that Justice Stevens has made explicit public statements about why he does not participate in the cert pool. I think he may have discussed it in his comments before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference back in June; unfortunately C-SPAN does not seem to have kept this video online. 18.26.0.5 22:39, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on Cert pool. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070212001523/http://www.scotusblog.com:80/movabletype/archives/2006/10/ask_the_author_6.html to http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/10/ask_the_author_6.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 17:57, 18 November 2016 (UTC)