On Halloween I say BOO to the Supreme Court.
I already feel like the Supreme Court should be disbanded and their old decisions thrown out. Then we should place new Justices on the Court who are actually non-partisan who will make decisions based on the Constitution rather than their whims. People ask me so you think Brown v. Board of Education should be thrown out? And my answer is we would not have even needed Brown if the Supreme Court would not have made a ridiculous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. I will spare you the rest of this rant, just know that once you go to law school you realize what a farce the Supreme Court is.
The thing that set me off today is that the Supreme Court granted a stay of the execution scheduled for last night. Whether or not you agree with Capital Punishment, one has to admit the Supreme Court's timing was absurd. The execution date has been set for months now but the Supreme Court comes in 15 minutes before its supposed to happen and grants the stay? What the heck? Do they need that much publicity? The timing forces the victim's family, the prisoner, and the prisoner's family onto a roller coaster of emotions. It dangles closure in front of them like a string and then pulls it away at the last minute. It goes to show you that these rich old law professors have no sense of what their decisions do to the real world. Shame on them.
-J
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