[Vision2020] I'm color blind, but even I can see that the herring is red!

[Debbie Gray]

On 15 Mar 2005 at 11:35, Nick Gier wrote:
> Thank the gods and banshees that our legislature is not the final
> authority and that the courts can protect our basic civil rights.
> 
> Nick Gier

Except when the courts have judges who are appointed by people with 
and/or have specific agendas of their own and cause us to re-visit 
court cases that have been decided years ago or weigh international 
opinion, etc.  =(     

Regardless of where people one falls on the recent 'juvenile death 
penalty' decision, I think it is a scary precedent to set by using 
'international opinion' to decide constitutionality of death 
sentences for juveniles or any other constitutional issue. I am not 
debating the juvenile death penalty concept, rather the process by 
which this decision was reached.

Thoughts?