[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Quote of the Day by Liz

[First Amendment]

Prosecutors in the Golden State spent last weekend scrambling to figure out a response to last Thursday's 5-4 decision that California had violated the Constitution's ban on ex post facto – after the fact – laws when the Legislature changed the time limit for bringing criminal charges in child sex-abuse cases to cover older cases.

Anyone have some details on this? Is Farah referring to a SCOTUS ruling or a CA SC ruling? Sounds absolutely vile.

[First Amendment]

Prosecutors in the Golden State spent last weekend scrambling to figure out a response to last Thursday's 5-4 decision that California had violated the Constitution's ban on ex post facto – after the fact – laws when the Legislature changed the time limit for bringing criminal charges in child sex-abuse cases to cover older cases.

Anyone have some details on this? Is Farah referring to a SCOTUS ruling or a CA SC ruling? Sounds absolutely vile.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!!

[AntiGuv]

I know. I know. Such a movement has not a snowball's chance in Miami of being successful in the short term.

Interesting. Joseph Farah uses "in the short term" as a euphemism for "in our lifetime" - what a curious affectation...

[AntiGuv]

It's true no U.S. Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached.

Ummm.. It's only true if that doesn't include impeached Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase....

[joesnuffy]

Rule of Law
or Rule of man
They are getting too big for their britches and need to be taken down a few pegs
where they belong..
Farah is correct...impeach them

[aristeides]

In general, I support enforcing limitations on the government like statutes of limitations. But in this case I have to wonder whether it is just a coincidence that, the day after this decision, the Supreme Court vacated at least the sentence of Matthew Limon, who had sodomized a 14-year-old boy, in light of its Lawrence decision.

[rockfish59]

'Diversity is perversity!'--M. Savage

[jordan8]

Good. These laws are clearly ex post facto and clearly unconstitutional. If the states involved didn't give these molesters enough time, then tough sh**, they should have thought of that before.

The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed."

A bill of attainder was a legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. - William H. Rehnquist