you are not reading with any context or understanding.
That clause comes after a comma, therefore just about every person who understands statutory or constitutional construction or even english will tell the clause is referring to cases and the appellate jurisdiction of the court.
It means in all other cases the Supreme Ct has appellate jurisdiction unless the House makes an exception or a regulation. For instance the house could give original jurisdiction to the Sup Ct in FISA matters or maybe matters involving immigration... if it wished.
Your argument about Marbury vs Madison is interesting but as a lefty you could not seriously be in favor of giving majority rule back to the voters via the house. I can't believe you just argued laws should not be subject to Sup Ct review.
That clause comes after a comma, therefore just about every person who understands statutory or constitutional construction or even english will tell the clause is referring to cases and the appellate jurisdiction of the court.
It means in all other cases the Supreme Ct has appellate jurisdiction unless the House makes an exception or a regulation. For instance the house could give original jurisdiction to the Sup Ct in FISA matters or maybe matters involving immigration... if it wished.
Your argument about Marbury vs Madison is interesting but as a lefty you could not seriously be in favor of giving majority rule back to the voters via the house. I can't believe you just argued laws should not be subject to Sup Ct review.
I am not pretending anything here. I am simply stating fact. What you write is true but does not go to my point. I have taken the liberty to underline in your quote the important words in the Constitution that place the House superior to The Court in all matters except those affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party. The House, if it wishes to exercise that clause, a feature of our U.S. Constitution largely overlooked, must act pre-emptively. Marbury does not, and can not, set aside the Constitution.
This often glossed over clause in our Constitution is, I am certain, what Newt Gingrich was ineptly referring to when he shocked so many.
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