Court Opinion

ID: 9433234
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:39:29.027112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:40.148974
License: Public Domain

Justice Stevens,
concurring.*
The Court persuasively explains why we have “the power to remand to a lower federal court any case raising a federal issue that is properly before us in our appellate capacity.” Ante, at 166. That conclusion comports with a primary characteristic — and, I believe, virtue — of our discretionary authority to manage our certiorari docket: our ability to *176apply the “totality-of-the-circumstances” approach that Justice Scalia finds objectionable. Post, at 191. The Court’s wise disposition of. these petitions falls squarely within the best traditions of its administration of that docket. I therefore join the Court’s opinions.

[This opinion applies also to No. 94-8988, Stutson v. United States, post, p. 193.]