Author: Scott Lemieux
This week's decisions forbidding states from applying mandatory life sentences to individuals under 18 have been well-covered elsewhere, but I had a couple points to make. First, from the opening.
I've gotten some pushback in various social media about my argument that Antonin Scalia is wrong to assert that the state of Arizona has an inherent "sovereignty" over its borders.
As mentioned below, the Supreme Court struck down three of the four challenged provisions of the Arizona immigration law and left open an as-applied challenge on the other one. As.
No health care ruling. Mandatory life sentences for people under the age of 18 unconstitutional. Shockingly, same 5-person majority not willing to say that Citizens United was wrong, throws out.
The content of Anne-Marie Slaughter's much-discussed Atlantic piece is not as bad as the white-baby-with-mean-feminist-mommy cover would indicate. And yet in some ways the cover is accurate, because a lot.
Making rape jokes. And this: Leaving aside the irony of embracing rape as a means of punishing it, it points up how unsurprising widespread tolerance of the abuses at Guantanamo.
Sandusky guilty on 45 counts. Sandusky's behavior was monstrous and it's good that he has been held accountable. But the accountability should not stop there. Sandusky was able to keep.
Should the Supreme Court, as the InTrade prophets suggest, strike down the PPACA the Chamber of Commerce will have completed a perfect term at the Supreme Court. And given that.