THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL MORE TO THIS OPINION THAN WE KNOW!
I would not vouch for others, but I can not imagine CLARENCE THOMAS, or SAMUEL ALITO, ever voting AGAINST the prohibition of DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
“I would not vouch for others, but I can not imagine CLARENCE THOMAS, or SAMUEL ALITO, ever voting AGAINST the prohibition of DOUBLE JEOPARDY!”
I suspect there is a simple answer. Both believe the courts should follow the law and the Constitution, even though they believe the law to be wrong. Otherwise you are in banana republic territory.
The real problem is that the federal government is passing laws regularly that double up on existing state laws. Every federal law that duplicates a state law should be repealed.
The present system will eventually lead to the elimination of local law enforcement and replaced by a federal police.
Think about that...Do you really want the FBI enforcing local law? And all trials in a federal court? Both immune from the will of the voting public? I don’t think that is what we want.
A late hour noise complaint to be enforced by the same tactics used in General Flynn’s arrest or the “visit” to Jame’s O’Keef’s house?