It is a sign of the continued delusions of the lamestream media, legal analysts and commentators that they still indulge in debates over precedents, legislative history and the prior opinions of individual justices on the same matter to try to justify and predict how this Court will rule on King v. Burwell, the latest absurd case to reach this Court on appeal.
The palace of the early Roman governor (now the Palace of Justice) was rebuilt on the same site by King Louis IX (St. Louis) in the 13th century and enlarged 100 years later by Philip IV (the Fair), who added the grim gray-turreted Conciergerie, with its impressive Gothic chambers.
Looming over all of it, then, was the awareness that the larger criminal justice system remained on the same course as before.
Justice Sotomayor wrote or joined all four from the liberal justices, and Justice Alito did the same for the ones from the conservative side.
My concern is that under the pressure of the cuts and reforms that are being inflicted on the criminal justice system, the same corners are going to be cut whatever Tory ministers say in their set-piece speeches.
The exchange was unusual, as Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito are almost always on the same side.
A Seasoned Creative Public Affairs Beast, Wyatt Closs thrives on and evangelizes about tight beats and social justice in the same breath.
The justices accepted both cases on the same day last December, and briefing has proceeded along identical schedules.
In his view, while justice and legitimacy are related draw on the same set of political values legitimacy makes weaker demands than justice.
"Our Constitution was written at a time when delay between sentencing and execution could be measured in days or weeks, not decades," Justice Breyer wrote in another dissent on the same subject, this one in 1999.
