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The youth justice amendment bill passed the parliament despite unanimous opposition from Labor.
The youth justice amendment bill, introduced by the attorney general, John Elferink, sought to "clarify" the use of mechanical restraints in Northern Territory correctional facilities.
Jared Sharp, legal officer at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (Naaja), told Guardian Australia the only conclusion to take from the youth justice amendment bill was that it would enable an increase in the usage.
The youth justice amendment bill 2016 purports to "clarify" the use of restraints in juvenile detention situations, give the commissioner of corrections wider scope to approve their use and increase transparency measures.
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Romania adopted new juvenile justice amendments into the penal code in 2006, providing for the use of separate juvenile courts; however it did not rule that the professionals involved must have undertaken special training.
Perhaps a Supreme Court Justice Recall Amendment to the Constitution is in order?
Against the six justices upholding the Michigan amendment, Justice Sonia Sotomayor (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) unleashed 18,000 words of dissent, a not-insubstantial portion of which she took the rare opportunity to read aloud from the bench.
"The notion that the government, rather than the people, may be the final arbiter of truth in political debate is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment," Justice James M. Johnson wrote for four of the justices in the majority.
The Defense of Marriage Act was "unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion that was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
"Belief cannot be penalized consistently with the First Amendment," Justice Douglas said.
The First Amendment, Justice Scalia wrote, "has no application when what is restricted is not protected speech".
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