Reply #77: as explained several times: it was submitted for the justices to consider per standard practice [View All]

The nutjob bringing this case filed an emergency petition for stay with the Justice assigned to circuit from which the case originated. That Justice was Souter, and as is almost always the case with this sort of emergency petition, he denied it. The nutjob then, as permitted by the SCOTUS rules, re-submitted his petition to another Justice, namely Thomas. Thomas, following standard practice when a once-rejected emergency petition is re-filed, referred the matter to the court for consideration at its regular conference, which happens to be today. It really wouldn't have mattered which justice the nutjob went to second -- even if he had gone to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she would have done the same thing as Thomas--kicked it to the conference so it could be disposed of once and for all.