Letter to the US Supreme Court Clerk

Scott Harris is the current clerk of the US Supreme
Court. This presents an interesting constitutional
question, because this challenge has never been
raised before so far as I have been able to find out.
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Scott S. Harris
1 First Street NE
Washington  DC  20543

REF: Docket 17-1416 and FOIA request

Dear Mr. Harris:

A SCOTUS web page reports that the Justices
of the US Supreme Court rely on a summary
of my petition in the docket referenced above
as written by recent law school graduates
lacking any significant life or legal experience
in lieu of the Justices directly understanding
my submitted document. This task to which
the young lawyers are put is beyond their capacity,
otherwise the Justices would include young lawyers
on the bench. Generally they are not even qualified
to practice before this Court.

I hereby request a copy of that internal summary
complete with associated recommendation, also
reported on the SCOTUS web page.

    Should you be inclined to deny this request,
please consider this an FOIA request to which
the judiciary is usually immune but is here
required to comply because of Rule 45(1) stating
that all process in the US Supreme Court is done
in the name of the President of the United States.
That rule was originally invoked in the
February 5, 1790 session of the Supreme Court and
has continuously been in effect ever since.

    As such, the process by which the information
I provided in my petition allegedly landed before
the Justices in the summary I am requesting, is a
function of the executive branch of the US
Government and as such is subject to extant FOIA
statutes. Thus failure to provide the requested copy,
without redaction, would be a violation of federal
law under which you are personally responsible as
keeper of the records for the US Supreme Court.

                    Sincerely,