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To: Macho MAGA Man
The 2005 SCOTUS opinion in Roper v. Simmons, forbidding the death penalty for those 17 years old or younger was psychobabble BS spouted by Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer. Dissenting with reason and justice were Justices Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas, and (surprisingly) O'Connor.

The 2012 SCOTUS opinion in Miller v. Alabama, forbidding life sentences without parole being given to those 17 years old or younger was more psycholbabble excrement, this time coming out of Kagan, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor. Dissenting to such a radical judicial opinion were Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.

The majority justices in both decisions claimed such sentences were "cruel and unusual punishment", prohibited by the 8th Amendment. Yet these justices saw no problem of cruel and unusual punishment in allowing innocent babies to be butchered to death in the womb.

21 posted on 05/25/2025 8:42:58 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: Carl Vehse

(The majority justices in both decisions claimed such sentences were “cruel and unusual punishment”, prohibited by the 8th Amendment. Yet these justices saw no problem of cruel and unusual punishment in allowing innocent babies to be butchered to death in the womb.)

It’s pure hypocrisy!


22 posted on 05/25/2025 9:04:49 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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