Wrong On All Counts!(George Will hits another homer!)

The Washington Post ^ | 3/6/2005 | George F. Will

[kellynla]

In 1992, before delivering the Supreme Court's ruling in an abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators and mused: "Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line." Or perhaps you are a would-be legislator, a dilettante sociologist and a free-lance moralist, disguised as a judge.

Last Tuesday Kennedy played those three roles when, in yet another 5-4 decision, the court declared it unconstitutional to execute people who committed murder when they were under 18 years old. Such executions, it said, violate the Eighth Amendment proscription of "cruel and unusual" punishments because. . . . Well, Kennedy's opinion, in which Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined, is a tossed salad of reasons why those five think the court had a duty to do what state legislatures have the rightful power and, arguably, the moral responsibility to do.

[kellynla]

The liberals don't have a problem murdering babies but don't let anyone execute a teenager convicted of murder. Term limits for the Supremes!

[Enterprise]

Great article.

[OkiMusashi]

Why can't we use this ruling to our advantage? It clearly outlaws abortion.

[bahblahbah]

Is there any chance that a justice besides Rehnquist would be leaving the bench in the next 4 years?

[kellynla]

Good question. Let me know when you find out the answer!

[freeangel]

That would be to "save" the people who can vote democrat now.

[kellynla]

"Is there any chance that a justice besides Rehnquist would be leaving the bench in the next 4 years?"
Probably not unless God steps in. But none of them are what you'd call "spring chickens"
These people apparently don't have lives other than their jobs. LOL

[basil]

Place keeper for later read.

[Fishrrman]

"This Constitution of The United States recognizes the death penalty to be appropriate punishment pursuant to the due process of law.
No person in the United States, nor in the several States, shall face the death penalty unless above the age of fifteen years and six months."

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post. We are witnessing the "devolving standards of dictators" irrationalizing away the LIFE of INNOCENT victims.

[Unam Sanctam]

Justice Kennedy is a jerk. The Constitution gives the Executive and the Senate the power to enter into and ratify international conventions, not the Supreme Court.

[kellynla]

not only a jerk, but an ignorant jerk! LOL

[rdb3]

^

[Zechariah11]

Well. Is it gauche to interrupt Kennedy's seminar on adolescence with some perhaps pertinent details? The 17-year-old in the case the court was considering bragged about planning to do what he then did: He broke into a woman's home, put duct tape over her eyes and mouth, wrapped her head in a towel, bound her limbs with electrical wire, then threw her off a railroad trestle into a river where, helpless, she drowned.

If Kennedy represents the mainstream, it is time to change the shape of the river. His opinion is an intellectual train wreck . . .

I hope Justice Kennedy feels a bit of embarrassment from this well written article.

[kellynla]

"embarrassment?"
these arrogant lawyers in black would cut off their liberal noses to spite their hypocritical faces before they would ever actually admit that they EVER made a mistake! LMAO

[BibChr]

George Will lost me as an admirer some time ago, but this is a home-run.

If Kennedy represents the mainstream, it is time to change the shape of the river

Bingo.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

[spinestein]

[Why can't we use this ruling to our advantage?]


Because it is a "loose constructionist" argument, as in; the Constitution is a "living document" designed to be interpreted and reinterpreted according to the current social mood, to produce a legal precedent to support any conclusion that has already been decided upon, because the end justifies the means.

If we want to use this to our advantage (which we certainly can do) we will have to embrace this sophist way of thinking.

Remember that a "living document" adapting to the needs of our times is just a misleading name for a strategy to infringe on the Bill of Rights and our freedoms for our own good.

[Waco]

And to hell with the victims? Yep!

[CanGyrene]

It just goes to show that what Shakepeare said in Henry VI, Act IV, Scene 2 is a timeless observation - about attorneys...which obviously includes most judges. And that is damn near 400 years ago! You all should see what we have to deal with up here in feudal heaven - Canada!!!

[Lurking2Long]

Ooops!

For a second there I thought we had a hate crime!

(George Will hits a homo!)