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Supreme Court американский решил вчера запретить применение смертной казни в случае умственно отсталых заключённых.

Судьи разделились 6:3, против оказались трое самых консервативных судей: Томас, Ренквист, Скалиа.

Ссылки: вкратце, мнение большинства, мнение Скалиа (опять забыл, как по-русски dissent говорят), мнение Ренквиста.

Мне кажется так: результат - хороший, юриспруденция - плохая ("bad law", по ёмко-английски; не путать с "плохой закон"). Ссылка на восьмую поправку не выдерживает критики. Мнение Скалиа написано исключительно едко и метко. Цитата:
But the Prize for the Court’s Most Feeble Effort to fabricate “national consensus” must go to its appeal (deservedly relegated to a footnote) to the views of assorted professional and religious organizations, members of the so-called “world community,” and respondents to opinion polls.
Ух, какой едкий старикашка!

Какой-то неожиданный всплеск судебного активизма мы наблюдаем, по-моему, в этом случае.

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Date: 2002-06-22 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saul-paradise.livejournal.com
well, Scalia is a textual fuck...but he is using the legislative inaction and, I would say, ineptitude of his ideological opponents on the court (with the exception of Stevens) to push these ridiculous views. See Harmelin v. Michigan.

Date: 2002-06-22 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dyak.livejournal.com
Well, I am still waiting for him to declare that the 2nd Am. applies only to flitlocks, 'cause that's all that the founding fathers were aware of. Several quotes from Federalist Papers and private letters of Jefferson would be very helpful for such decision too. I love his textuality.

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Date: 2002-06-22 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saul-paradise.livejournal.com
I agree with you there -- the pure textual approach is ridiculous...But if you watch his opinions carefully, he deviates from that once in a while...just in a very subtle manner.

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