Thanks for clarifying what's actually going on...what's at stake, tacit...excellent post!
It puts an interesting spin on the thought of more than a year of a 4 - 4 Supreme Court.
The All Writs Act requires citizens and companies to take any measures "necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law." (Emphasis added)
Is this "necessary and appropriate" to do when the people you're ordering to do it are private citizens and not government employees?
Unfortunately, the quoted language seems to extend to private citizens.
The All Writs Act of 1789 was clearly never intended to apply to a situation like this; how could it be?
Nor was the Constitution (and that's not unique to the present situation), which has got some rough times ahead of it, and the Court's politicization is not going to help in the least!
