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...Supreme Court??€™s passive endorsement of this sickening practice goes beyond its usual barbaric support for capital punishment. It serves as a tacit signal to death penalty hawks that it’s okay to develop calculated loopholes to traditional restrictions. And it is a silent nod of approval for a conception of the death penalty as an end in itself and as the cornerstone of a warped moral framework in which justice remains undone so long as the wrongdoer breathes...
...particular circumstances of Singleton’s case should not obscure the Supreme Court??€™s fundamental misinterpretation of the Eighth Amendment. Capital punishment is cruel and unusual by modern standards, and no Court fully committed to upholding the Constitution can find a place for it in our country. The Supreme Court did not only disgrace its bench by failing to protect the mentally insane from execution, but indeed disgraces it every time the Court refuses to eradicate execution altogether...
Summers said he was pleased that the Supreme Court??€™s recent decision permitting affirmative action would allow the College to ensure that future entering classes “are diverse and excellent and excellent because they’re diverse...
Tribe, who also argued unsuccessfully for civil rights groups in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case, was unavailable for comment on the court??€™s decision...
Barnett predicted to last night’s audience that his clients would lose their case, saying that the lower courts would be unlikely to challenge the Supreme Court??€™s earlier reversal...