[reaganaut1]

There was no "national consensus" against the death penalty for child rape. In any case, Supreme Court justices are not supposed to be pollsters or legislators but impartial interpreters of the Constitution.

[Slapshot68]

I’m shocked this came from The NY Times.

[SumProVita]

“evolving standards of decency”

Pure relativism. By standards of decency, Kennedy refers to moral standards and these do NOT evolve. They are based on unchanging truth.

[the Real fifi]

This is highly embarrassing for Justice Kennedy and undercuts substantially the validity of the opinion which is based on a gross error of fact.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Kennedy seems to suffer some confusion about the role of the SCOTUS, and what he has been hired to do:

Before he graduated from college, Justice Kennedy spent several months studying at the London School of Economics, where he was struck by the range of student opinion and the vehemence of political debate.

“At the political union, you had to sit in the room according to your place on the ideological spectrum, and, to give you an idea of what it was like, the Communists—the Communists!—were in the middle,” Kennedy recalled recently. “It was a different world, and I loved it.”

[NinoFan]

Hell hath no fury like a Greenhouse scorned.