The petition to the Supreme Court was filed Friday by LC litigation director Mick Harrison and Washington, D.C., attorney John Clifford on behalf of the LC itself; Robert McIlvaine; and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. McIlvaine is the father of Bobby McIlvaine, a 26-year-old who was killed in one of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center when that building collapsed on the morning of the attacks.

For extensive background on the petition to the Supreme Court, including the seven areas of evidence addressed in the First Amended Complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 30, 2019, plus a copy of the petition itself, click HERE.

According to an explanation by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, “A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it. The U.S. Supreme Court uses certiorari to select most of the cases it hears. The writ of certiorari is a common law writ, which may be abrogated or controlled entirely by statute or court rules.”

For a photo of McIlvaine and Harrison (wearing hat) with LC president David Meiswinkle (holding microphone), click HERE. They are pictured at a 2019 news conference in Washington.

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Times Publishes Letter About Article on 9/11 Museum: The New York Times has published a letter to the editor by a member of the family advisory committee to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Michael Burke of the Bronx. In an italicized addendum to the letter, headlined “The 9/11 Museum’s Mission,” the writer is described as having served on the family advisory committee to the institution. His brother, NYFD Capt. William F. Burke, died in one of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center when the building collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

The brief letter, which appeared in print editions of the newspaper on July 17, appears not to be accessible online. (At least efforts for this blog to find it with the help of a search engine were unsuccessful.)

Michael Burke wrote in the last paragraph that the museum “must remain forever dedicated to its core mission: preserving and presenting the story of Sept. 11 — the attacks, the death and destruction, and the heroism and sacrifice.”

His letter was in response to the article by Zachary Small headlined “9/11 Museum Vexed by Cuts and Feuds.” Coverage of that article posted on this blog on July 14, is HERE.

Although Michael Burke’s letter may not be available online, Times subscribers can access this 2017 article from the newspaper, headlined “Battered and Scarred, ‘Sphere’ Returns to 9/11 Site,” which mentions both Michael and William Burke. Also online is this October 2007 article by Michael Burke stating, among other things, that the planned memorial would not properly serve the memory of his brother and others who died in the September 2001 attacks.

— Mark Channing Miller