Rule of Four in the United States
Rule of Four
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 412 RULE OF FOUREven before Congress expanded the Supreme Court’s discretionary certiorari jurisdiction in 1925, the Court had adopted the practice of granting certiorari whenever four of the nine Justices agreed that a case should be heard. This “rule of four” was first made public in testimony
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