Helping out the Supremes
The Supreme Court begins its work today, the first Monday in October. Judging from news accounts of the cases they will decide, this has to be an easy term for them. This probably explains why Clarence Thomas is all over television hawking his new book. The guy has a chip on his shoulder, if you ask me.
But the nine judges can clear at least some of the docket pretty toute de suite:
Lethal injection: the case is whether the current cocktail of drugs used to introduce a death row inmate to the Grim Reaper creates an unnecesary risk of pain so as to render it cruel and unusual punishment. For or against capital punishment, there's no reason for the state to torture someone before they execute him or her. That's what the Taliban does.
401(k): so this guy loses $150,000 from his retirement fund because somebody was asleep at the switch and didn't switch his money to less risky investments after he specifically asked him to. If my wife asks me to bring home milk and I forget, there's hell to pay. I say, pay the guy.
Guns: Nice try, D.C., but you can't do an end run around 200 years of history and the Second Amendment itself (even with the word "Militia" stuck in there) and ban handguns outright. This law should be overturned.
Voters: Requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot seems like a good idea, except that Republicans have photos of themselves at the country club and mostly Democratic stalwarts in the minority community and folks like my 90-year-old mom would be hard pressed to come up with the proper documents at the polling place. Republicans must be getting nervous when they think my mom, a registered voter in Roosevelt Democrat mode, shouldn't be able to vote.
See? This Supreme Court stuff is easy.
But the nine judges can clear at least some of the docket pretty toute de suite:
Lethal injection: the case is whether the current cocktail of drugs used to introduce a death row inmate to the Grim Reaper creates an unnecesary risk of pain so as to render it cruel and unusual punishment. For or against capital punishment, there's no reason for the state to torture someone before they execute him or her. That's what the Taliban does.
401(k): so this guy loses $150,000 from his retirement fund because somebody was asleep at the switch and didn't switch his money to less risky investments after he specifically asked him to. If my wife asks me to bring home milk and I forget, there's hell to pay. I say, pay the guy.
Guns: Nice try, D.C., but you can't do an end run around 200 years of history and the Second Amendment itself (even with the word "Militia" stuck in there) and ban handguns outright. This law should be overturned.
Voters: Requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot seems like a good idea, except that Republicans have photos of themselves at the country club and mostly Democratic stalwarts in the minority community and folks like my 90-year-old mom would be hard pressed to come up with the proper documents at the polling place. Republicans must be getting nervous when they think my mom, a registered voter in Roosevelt Democrat mode, shouldn't be able to vote.
See? This Supreme Court stuff is easy.
posted by Michael Riley at 9:38 AM
5 Comments:
Lethal injection is getting off way too easy, illegal aliens with doctored ID cards can vote, and your mom shouldn't be voting from what your past blogs seem to suggest about her mental capacity.Clarence Thomas got away with sexual harassment years ago and is a joke to society.Hope his book flops.
Comparing lethal injection to torture betrays a complete absence of the use of the power of reason.
Why? Both methods aimed at heinous criminals/terrorists. Who cares if they are tortured? It's least they deserve. Eye for an eye.
Democrats don't want picture id's because it is harder for them to commit voter fraud.Murderers should be happy they lived longer than their victims who cares how they die.Justice Thomas' book will be number 1 on the nyt book list much to the chagrin of Michael Riley and the nyt.I guess justice Thomas doesn't think like a black man on the Democrat plantation.But he is the living proof of Martin Luther Kings ideals.
Another victim of Republican talking points.
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