Posted on 10/21/2015 10:09:17 AM PDT by PROCON
MINNEAPOLIS (October 20, 2015) — Referencing rulings to restrict capital punishment and changing sentiment within the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday he wouldn't be surprised if the nation's highest court invalidates the death penalty.
Scalia addressed capital punishment during a University of Minnesota Law School appearance in which he also made clear retirement isn't in his near-term plans. The death penalty came up as Scalia described his judicial view that the Constitution is an "enduring" document that shouldn't be open to broad interpretation — while sharing frustration that his colleagues too readily find flexibility in it.
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With the government moving more and more closer to tyranny, it might not be a bad thing to strike it down. Of course they will just do their killing extrajudicially.
Nullification. Come on, states. Do your job.
Why would big government types want to take away the ultimate power from government? Wouldn’t they have to make the extremely conservative argument that government is untrustworthy, which they have been extremely unwilling to do in recent years?
“Nullification. Come on, states. Do your job.”
That needs to be said over and over again.
Proving that Scalia has mastered the art of counting noses.
However, if the death penalty for treason is Constitutional, then it should be accepted as a given that it does not reflect a "cruel and unusual" punishment.
This would violate the Constitution itself, a death is the prescribed penalty for treason — in the Constitution.
What the Fifth Amendment says is that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. That’s proper.
States Rights
There must be an exemption for killing babies.
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty.
The case led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States, which came to an end when Gregg v. Georgia was decided in 1976.
Wikipedia
and the bleeding heart jerks now will have just stay home and watch ompha and degenerate.
Not allowing the government to kill its own citizens is the least of our concerns.
Scalia should be telling patriots the following concerning his liberal colleagues. If patriots can elect a 2/3 conservative supermajority in the Senate while maintaining a majority in the House in the ’16 elections, then Congress will be able to impeach and remove his activist justices colleagues from the bench. But maybe they would be willing to resign instead.
Remember in November ’16!
It wouldn’t surprise me if those 5 activist lawyers in black robes struck down the whole Constitution.
Stay tuned.
You could at least commend me for my positive attitude.
I do know you're a Constitutional scholar, thanks for keeping us informed!
Everybody who graduates from high school (grade school?) in this country should be a constitutional scholar.
“3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
Now ask me about electrical theory or Ohm's Law and I can respond in kind :-)
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