Liberty Reborn

Good to know the activists on the Supreme Court are still alive and kicking. Their latest ruling rewrites and adds extra constitutional provisions to our Constitution in essence changing the meaning of the document. Silly you if you thought that the Constitution could only be changed by a clearly spelled out amendment process prescribed within it! Oh no – the Supreme Court has usurped that power for themselves.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that child rapists cannot be executed, concluding capital punishment is reserved for murderers.

Patrick Kennedy, 43, was on Louisiana’s death row for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter.

The ruling stemmed from the case of Patrick Kennedy, who has been on Louisiana’s death row since 2003, when he was sentenced to be executed for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion that “evolving standards of decency” in the United States forbid capital punishment for any crime other than murder. Execution of Patrick Kennedy, the justices ruled, would be unconstitutional.

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“Difficulties in administering the penalty to ensure its arbitrary and capricious application require adherence to a rule reserving its use, at this stage of evolving standards and in cases of crimes against individuals, for crimes that take the life of the victim,” Anthony Kennedy wrote in Wednesday’s majority opinion.

In case you couldn’t understand that psychobabble, Kennedy is basically saying that the death penalty an only be applied to cases where a life is taken.

So let’s read what the Constitution actually says and show Kennedy as your typical dimbulb liberal. Amendment 5:

No person shall … be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb … nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…

Got that? There is NO Constitution prohibition on how “life” may be deprived to those convicted of a crime after due process or a restriction as to for which crimes. And since taken of life is spelled out as allowed to be deprived after due process, it is not considered “cruel” and “unusual” either.

So these justices have essentially rewritten the Constitution by placing a restriction upon when the death penalty is allowed.

Kennedy and all justices that signed this opinion deserve to be impeached. But that won’t happen because we don’t give a damn any more in America – so it seems.

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