The whole notion is stupid, why don’t the congress just change the sentencing laws and make it “manditory life” for some of these perves. Then it wouldn’t have ended at the SCOTUS.
I think the point of this is that the federal government doesn’t have the authority to set mandatory sentencing for this crime.
Because they need the legal precedence so that they can incarcerate anyone they want, for as long as they like and claim it’s done legally.
Because Congress was never granted authority over ANY crime not on military property except treason, piracy and counterfeiting. All else is a usurpation of States’ authority. ALL else.