Posted on 10/14/2021 2:29:56 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan clashed with her conservative colleague Brett Kavanaugh during a Supreme Court hearing over the Boston Bomber on Wednesday as they heard arguments about whether an appeals court was justified in overturning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.
It was a rare breach of protocol as liberal and conservative wings clashed over the punishment for Tsarnaev's role in the 2013 attack that killed three people.
The court's conservative majority appeared sympathetic toward the Justice Department's challenge to a 2020 lower court ruling that upheld his conviction but overturned his death sentence.
The three liberal justices asked tough questions but it appeared unlikely that enough of their six conservative colleagues would join them to secure a new trial to determine whether he should get a sentence of life in prison or death.
Sparks flew as the justices considered how the sentencing court excluded possibly mitigating evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Typical liberal thinking....making excuses for a murderer.
The dirt bag should be sleeping with the fishes.
I'm shocked.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Kagan quizzed government lawyer Eric Feigin about why the defense was not allowed to include evidence that Tsarnaev’s brother Tamerlan may have been involved in a triple homicide two years before the bombing. The evidence would have supported Tsarnaev’s defense that he was led on by his domineering older brother. But Kavanaugh took issue with that line..The reason the evidence was omitted, he said, was that it was weak so it made no sense to ask the government attorney to make assumptions to the contrary...
that was the role of the jury,’ interrupted Kagan...
Roberts said it should be easier to admit evidence during a proceeding that would determine whether someone is sentenced to death than for other reasons....
Feigin said the Biden administration believed the jury reached a ‘sound verdict and that the court of appeals was wrong to upset that verdict.’ [now that is what is surprising]
Kabuki theater for the masses to try to reassure the public that SCOTUS isn’t in fact controlled by Deep State and is nothing but a rubber stamp for it now.
These Liberals, including traitor Roberts, have a strange way of defending human life. They defend the lives of society’s most unsavory individuals, especially fellow murderers.
It is as if they feel some kind of spiritual connection/kinship to killers like themselves.
After all, every single one of these Supreme Court scumbags defends killing innocent people, not one defends the lives of the innocent.
That should tell us all what we’re dealing with here.
SCOTUS reports to Malta FIRST above the Constitution
and murdered a real Judge, Judge Scalia
and refused to save America.
SCOTUS is what happens when dead children
and others’ children are GIVEN by EPSTEIN-DS
to “judges” to eat, rape, kill, and steal.
SCOTUS belongs in GITMO shackled.
:: The evidence would have supported Tsarnaev’s defense that he was led on by his domineering older brother.::
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Good grief! The little dirt bag was 19 not 9.
Regardless of what SCOTUS decides, does anyone believe that the slowjoe justice dept will ever pull the trigger and actually execute this dirtbag?
Alito & Thomas are the only ‘non-compromised’ judges on this so called ‘Supreme’ court.
Because Tamerlan was dead and not on trial and not being sentenced.
Tsarnaev is more likely to die of old age than from being executed, but if it looks like the Supreme Court will make a pro-death penalty ruling, Biden could always commute Tsarnaev’s sentence to time served.
A follow on link from the Daily Mail give a better description: Liberal Justice Kagan breaches protocol by interrupting Kavanaugh
So the protocol breach was by Kagan not Kavanaugh.
I sure do.
They will do this to cover for the fact that they are actively opposing executing hundreds of savage degenerate criminals in state prisons, many of whom are far, far ahead of this kid in deserving death.
Thanks for the update.
So Biden could effectively reduce his penalty; but SCrOTUS (nutsack, if you must know) is saying he can’t increase the penalty.
That reminds me of Draco, who supposedly had the death penalty for all offenses. When someone questioned him about it, he said he thought that the lesser crimes deserved the death penalty and he couldn't think of anything more severe for the greater crimes.
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