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While the Supreme Court is legally capable of taking direct appeals (and if I could wave a magic wand they’d take quite a few more) they rarely do, for workload reasons. It’s not a viable strategy.

I personally think the Supreme Court should have a section that takes direct appeals which receive no argument and just say, “Refer to Supreme Court case X, you lose, go home.” Maybe that’s what retired Supreme Court justices should do before they die.