Kennedy isn't. He's pretty far left, in fact. Doesn't mean conservatives can't agree (at least partially) with him on particular matters.
There's a good number of people against the death penalty, especially for the under-18 crowd, at the Corner. I fall in the same camp; all studies indicate that people simply haven't developed their decision-making ability completely at that stage of their life. We don't even let them DRINK until age 21.
Of course, for the same reasons, I find it outrageous (as Scalia noted in his dissent) that the same Supreme Court thinks the same 17-year-old DOES have the decision-making power to have an abortion without parental advisement. As several Corner posted noted, logic and consistancy doesn't enter into the Court's thinking processes; it's just "abortion good, death penalty bad".
Other complaints include Kennedy not justifying his argument with anything in the US Constitution or Court precident, instead resorting to two unratified international treaties that the US is not involved in. And the general feeling that nine unelected guys in robes do not have the right to define morality for the entire nation, no matter the subject. That's, at best, the job of the 400+ elected guys in Congress, if not the state and local legislatures.
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Date: 2005-03-03 09:08 pm (UTC)There's a good number of people against the death penalty, especially for the under-18 crowd, at the Corner. I fall in the same camp; all studies indicate that people simply haven't developed their decision-making ability completely at that stage of their life. We don't even let them DRINK until age 21.
Of course, for the same reasons, I find it outrageous (as Scalia noted in his dissent) that the same Supreme Court thinks the same 17-year-old DOES have the decision-making power to have an abortion without parental advisement. As several Corner posted noted, logic and consistancy doesn't enter into the Court's thinking processes; it's just "abortion good, death penalty bad".
Other complaints include Kennedy not justifying his argument with anything in the US Constitution or Court precident, instead resorting to two unratified international treaties that the US is not involved in. And the general feeling that nine unelected guys in robes do not have the right to define morality for the entire nation, no matter the subject. That's, at best, the job of the 400+ elected guys in Congress, if not the state and local legislatures.