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2008-06-25 Home Front: Politix

US SC rejects death penalty for raping children along the usual 5-4 split

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Posted by gorb 2008-06-25 14:08|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Monroe could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-25 15:25|| 2008-06-25 15:25|| Front Page Top

#2 'It looks like a smashing victory on all fronts for us,' said Denise LeBoeuf, a longtime capital defense attorney from New Orleans.

Got any kids, Denise?

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-25 15:27|| 2008-06-25 15:27|| Front Page Top

#3 'It looks like a smashing victory on all fronts for us,' said Denise LeBoeuf, a longtime capital defense attorney from New Orleans.

Well, if I'm sitting on a jury of a father or mother who blasted some miscreant who raped their 8 year old, I'd be hard press to come back with anything other than improper discharge of a weapon in city limits. Lawyers like the above absolutely fail to grasp that law is just an extension of government and the it all resides upon the consent of the governed. Consent can be withdrawn in so many ways.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-25 16:03|| 2008-06-25 16:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Buried deep in their decision was an interesting rationalization, that because the death penalty appeals process was so long, the child victim would be forced for years, or even decades, to shepherd the rapist through the process.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-25 16:09|| 2008-06-25 16:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The "Kennedy Rule": that when the Court decides 5-4 that any government has done anything contrary to the Constitution, and Justice Kennedy was one of the five, the case was wrongly decided. And its corollary: if Justice Kennedy writes the opinion of the Court in such a case, it will be incoherently reasoned.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-25 16:36|| 2008-06-25 16:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not looking forward to their decreeing that gun ownership is a right reserved only for organized militias.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-06-25 16:56|| fots.cdgroup.org]">[fots.cdgroup.org] 2008-06-25 16:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Oops, make that organized militias under the express and direct control of the state (state, in this case, being defined as the federal government).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-06-25 16:57|| fots.cdgroup.org]">[fots.cdgroup.org] 2008-06-25 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 So what's the process for convicting 5 of the 4 Justices of the Supreme Court for treason, for attempting to destroy the United States and the constitution?

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-06-25 17:02|| 2008-06-25 17:02|| Front Page Top

#9 And SAUDI ARABIA has decided thats its okay for a an INFANT GIRL TO GET MARRIED AT AGE ONE YEAR.

As for GUN OWNERSHIP, IIRC FOX NEWS AM > new legal impetus appears NOT to be on challenging the US CONSTITIONAL provion on the right of citizens to bear arms, BUT INSTEAD TO FOCII ON A STATE'S + STATES' RIGHT TO "MONITOR" AND
"REGULATE" [read- LIMIT] PRIVATE GUN OWNERSHIP, hence SSSSHHHHHH bypassing andor degrading said Constitutional provision???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-25 18:04|| 2008-06-25 18:04|| Front Page Top

#10 So what's the process for convicting 5 of the 4 Justices of the Supreme Court for treason, for attempting to destroy the United States and the constitution?

It starts with the impeachment process in the House which is why voting for Congress is just as, if not, more important than the lesser of two evils in the Presidential contest.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-25 22:18|| 2008-06-25 22:18|| Front Page Top

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