Arlen Specter actually said...

I want to return to the issue of the basic authority and responsibility of the Supreme Court to decide the major cases on separation of powe...

the job of the court is to apply the law, not to make the law.

I had a lot of association with the firefighters in my days as a city official in Philadelphia.

The current rule in the Supreme Court is that petitions for certiorari are applied and there is a so-called cert pool.