Justice Cilia
Added 2016-02-18 19:26:03 +0000 UTCthe meal plan in hell is a pretty good value
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When I first heard the guy had died, on the one hand, I had the impulse to refrain from celebrating his demise, because any death is a tragedy. I'm sure his family loved him and they get to grieve. OTOH, I basically just assumed that the GOP would throw any kind of respect or dignity to the wind and instantly go scorched earth against Obama's duty to nominate a replacement (which prediction was borne out within hours). And on the gripping hand, it's hard not to be actively pleased that we no longer have a man on the court who is OK with the state executing innocent people. There are relatively few people in the world that I can point to and say, "Yeah, that is an _evil_ person." A man who could write, "This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent," definitely qualifies. That's FAR beyond just being misguided or ignorant.
Auros Harman
2016-02-18 22:15:57 +0000 UTC
