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By AndrewHyman Posted in SCOTUS — Comments (0) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

From a Quinnipiac poll:

The Supreme Court has recently ruled that a mandatory death penalty for child rape is unconstitutional. Do you favor or oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of child rape?

55% favor, 38% oppose. I'm not sure which way I'd answer this question, but I certainly don't think it's a "cruel" punishment for the kind of thing that happened in Kennedy v. Louisiana. This is a question to be decided by the people and their elected representatives.

Frankly, I am tired of the U.S. Supreme Court foisting its policy preferences on the people, not to mention doing so with the most condescending lectures imaginable about how some people's views are more "evolved" than those of other people. Even if this punishment were "cruel", it certainly would not be "unusual" in a historical sense (which is what the framers of the Bill of Rights meant by "unusual"). I guess the deadline is approaching for a motion for reconsideration in the case.

How can SCOTUS expect individual citizens to obey the law when they offer patently misleading opinions to justify their own disregard for valid legislation?