When the U.S.Supreme Court decides to hear a case,it issues a __________ ordering the lower court to certify the record of proceedings below and send it to the Supreme Court.

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The term used by the U.S. Supreme Court to order the lower court to send the record of proceedings below is "writ of certiorari." A commandment is a general term that refers to an authoritative order. A writ of order is not a commonly used term in the legal system. A writ of expo facto does not exist; it appears to be a misspelling of "ex post facto," which is a legal term referring to a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of actions that were committed before the enactment of the law.