Welcoming Our New Overlords
June 26, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
Power Line: Our robed masters strike again
Whence comes the Court’s authority to render the judgment in cases such as Kennedy? It is entirely self-created, based on the Court’s ipse dixit. This is not the way it’s supposed to work. As Justice Alito writes in dissent, quoting from Justice Kennedy’s opinion: “The Court is willing to block the potential emergence of a national consensus in favor of permitting the death penalty for child rape because, in the end, what matters is the Court’s ‘own judgment’ regarding ‘the acceptability of the death penalty.’”
On the other hand, at least they’re keeping their hands off our guns.
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