The answer to that is that Roberts is Chief Justice and just isn't going to dick about. So essentially he'll run the administrative meeting and will say "right, you've all had a w… (View Post)

I don't think there is a formal deadline, but declining to take a case is an active decision in the sense that they'd simply publish a denial of the writ of certiorari. So what happens is t… (View Post)

At the peak of the Cold War, no major US TV journalist had his tongue so far up Khrushchev's arsehole he could polish his dentures, to be fair. (View Post)

Not particularly accurate... but this is a very unusual election in that it's pretty clear who the two main candidates are, and they are extremely well known to the general public. There are jus… (View Post)

He currently has sufficient power to expel Corbyn, keep the Corbynists away from key seat selections, mould the NEC in his image, and ditch policies advanced under Corbyn. The left has been utterly i… (View Post)