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POPSKennedy's shame
The vaporous slogan posing as a standard is the spoon full of sugar that helps the Court’s enlightened medicine go down. The handiwork that results is not a reflection of our evolved values; it is five lawyers dragging the benighted masses kicking and screaming toward its Utopia — where brutalized eight-year-old girls, like murdered innocents and terrorized cities, are not flesh-and-blood but the props by which we measure how “maturely” we indulge their tormentors. And now, it turns out, so brazen was Kennedy’s power grab that the usual veneer — cloaking judicial tyranny in a self-celebration of societal “progress” — couldn’t even make it through two weeks. The evolving standards Justice Kennedy purported to find stemmed from what he took to be a national “consensus” against capital punishment for child rape. The furious public outcry after the ruling was a pretty good sign that something was amiss in the majority’s survey. Nevertheless, the Court observed that of the 36 states t
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POPSClub Gitmo Major Kyndra Miller Rotunda, a JAG officer in the U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve, is author of the new book, Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials. A former prosecutor at the Office of Military Commissions and Gitmo, in an interview with National Review Online editor Kathryn Lopez, Major Rotunda sheds light on war and the law, Guantanamo, and Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, and more.
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POPSIn dissent A horrible decision today at the Supreme Court. This is the first paragraph of the dissent. Written by Roberts with Thomas, Alito and Scalia in concurrence.
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