[Lazamataz]

With all these left-leaning decisions coming out of the Supreme Court lately, perhaps it is a good thing they declined to rule on the Second Amendment in the Emerson case.

[hchutch]

We need to get a Senate that will confirm one or two more Justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas to replace Stevens and Gunsburg before I'd feel comfortable with a Supreme Court Second Amendment case.

[hobbes1]

Monday's ruling concerned instances in which juries determined defendants' guilt or innocence and judges alone decided their punishment. The court held that such a sentence imposed by a judge violates a defendant's constitutional right to a trial by jury.

Hmmmm...Re-affirming Trial By Jury is now a leftist bent?

Not to mention the fact that reigning in the o'erweening power of the State, is decidedly a conservative thing...No wonder you guys have so much trouble with Bush....

[Sir Gawain]

Striking down judicial activism doesn't seem like a left-leaning decision to me.

[frmrda]

Actually I agree w/ this ruling. A judge should not be the seperate arbiter of life and death, unless the defendant has waived trial by jury, and had a bench trial. The Constitution gives the right to trial by jury. I see no reason that the death penalty portion of the trial should be difft.

So Ginsburg wrote the opinion. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while

[HELLRAISER II]

It's easy to see the realization of a Mad Max reality forming in the U.S. if you read into the Bleeding Heart Liberal pukes agenda and the whole world for that matter. It's beginning to look like the only justice one will recieve is one that we are willing to enforce ourselves, what a tragic outcome a world like that would be. God help us.

[William Terrell]

You really want a single judge to be able to sentence you to death, especially with the corruption currently sitting on the bench, or even extend your sentence using a wholly subjective criterion?