SCOTUS
At its next to the last public session this morning, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana. By the same 5-4 majority, the liberals on the court ruled that the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment for the crime of child rape. The majority opinion, once again authored by Justice Kennedy (no relation!) appears to be every bit as specious and disingenuous as was the case in Boumediene earlier this week.
The court also announced that its rulings in the 7 remaining cases for this current term will be announced tomorrow at 10 AM. Most prominent is the long awaited ruling in D.C. V. Heller, the first 2nd Amendment case undertaken by the Court since 1939, an opinioon rumored to have been authored by the current Court’s premier originalist and leading intellectual light, Antonin Scalia.
