I hesitate to join the “shame on her” chorus.
I’m a law and order guy, but this bugs me a little bit.
I don’t even pretend to be a Constitutional scholar, but the 8th amendment prohibits cruel & unusual punishment.
The term “idiot” strikes ma as a degrading term about a person’s mental capacity.
Don’t get me wrong, I throw the term around a lot and personally LOVE the term. Particularly regarding libtards.
But I’m an individual. It bugs me that a Government official gets to brand an individual citizen with such a degrading term, in an official way.
How long until some liberal judge forces conservatives to stand on street corners with “idiot” signs, as political retribution?
What’s wrong with a fine or other conventional citation? Why the theatrics???
Judges these days strike me as power-mad egomaniacs who love to demonstrate the smallness of the individual (for example, overturning popular votes for their own biases), and the unfettered power of the state over individual Americans.
I don’t like it.
Even leaving the cruel and unusual argument aside, is this really necessary? Judges want to be celebrities nowadays.