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Re:Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds... by akiselev on Sunday June 09, 2013 @02:09PM (#5849854)
What does that mean, "lead a Supreme Court challenge?"

From what I understand, they'd have to file lawsuit with a lower court and fight the long long road up to the SC docket.

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Re:Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds... by aroch on Sunday June 09, 2013 @03:27PM (#5850139)
SCOTUS can have "original jurisdiction"[1] over some cases depending on the matter under review. In this case, because the State (read: USG) is a party in the case, SCOTUS can be the court in which a case is first argued.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedures_of_the_Supreme_Court...

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Re:Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds... by khuey on Sunday June 09, 2013 @02:41PM (#5849970)
It means he wants to be on TV/in the newspaper/etc.
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