What is a possible avenue through which some cases have reached the Supreme Court? A. Congress asks the Court to review a proposed or recently passed law to see if it is constitutional.
B. A State holds a convention in which the public votes to have a case sent to the Court for review.
C. The Court decides to review one of its own earlier cases in order to change or modify its ruling.
D. The Court issues a writ of certiorari instructing a lower court to send it a case to review.

D. The Court issues a writ of certiorari instructing a lower court to send it a case to review.

Explanation:

A possible avenue through which some cases have reached the Supreme Court is the Court issuing a writ of certiorari instructing a lower court to send it a case to review.

A writ of certiorari is simply a judicial process which attempts to get a judicial review or an appeal to a decision made by a lower court or government agency to the Supreme Court.

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