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?
Proving that Scalia has mastered the art of counting noses.
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
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!