To: FerdieMurphy
Just damn! Just baloney.
This is the custom of SCOTUS when a new justice comes on board in the case of death penalty decisions. Since he's new and SCOTUS wants to err on the side of caution, the new member rules against execution if his is the swing vote.
109 posted on
02/03/2006 2:02:10 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He wasn't the swing vote. This is still much ado about nothing, however.
114 posted on
02/03/2006 2:10:09 PM PST by
garv
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Since he's new and SCOTUS wants to err on the side of caution, the new member rules against execution if his is the swing vote.If I'd been more astute I'd have read an autobiography of Justice Douglas and would have no doubt found that "unwritten" rule.
Or, I might have just joined the strict constitutional scholars on the court and voted with them.
116 posted on
02/03/2006 2:13:54 PM PST by
FerdieMurphy
(For English, Press One. (Tookie, you won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Oh, too late.))
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