Supreme Court 2006 Season Finale
With this being the last week of the current Supreme Court session, the final big decisions are starting to roll out. Slate has a clear and informative discussion going on about this crucial moment in the judicial world. E.g., today the court decided 5-4 that during death penalty sentencing, when factors favoring life and favoring death are exactly equal, the state can force the jury to choose death. (I.e., the “tie goes to Death” law of Kansas is constitutional.) And at 6-3 they ruled that Vermont’s limitations on campaign expenditures is uncostitutionial. By next Monday at the latest, expect a huge decision on the use of military trials for “war on terror” cases. This is important shit – do you think the results are just?
