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puszysty at 07:53pm on 17/06/2010
puszysty at 07:53pm on 17/06/2010And you tell me the West Wing is not about politics....
I'm watching Take This Sabbath Day. They are laying on the poiltics like MAD this episode. The death penalty is wrong and immoral! Everyone at the White House is so outright offended by the idea of sentencing someone to death that they must do anything to stop it! It's just so horrible what they're doing to this man!
Ugh. Thank you Charlie for providing at least one counterpoint to all this.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court wouldn't order an execution time that hadn't been ordered by a lower court already. The Supreme Court doesn't hear issues of guilt, it hears issues of legality. As such, the Supreme Court issues decisions, not punishment. So surely they knew this execution time was coming already, it would not have come strictly from the Supreme Court.
(And having Mendoza on the bench? Well, I don't know what the underlying issue in this supposed case was, but I can tell you, the Supreme Court would not grant an appeal solely based on the idea that they thought the death penalty was wrong. That breaches so many articles of the Constitution, it's not funny.)
I'm watching Take This Sabbath Day. They are laying on the poiltics like MAD this episode. The death penalty is wrong and immoral! Everyone at the White House is so outright offended by the idea of sentencing someone to death that they must do anything to stop it! It's just so horrible what they're doing to this man!
Ugh. Thank you Charlie for providing at least one counterpoint to all this.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court wouldn't order an execution time that hadn't been ordered by a lower court already. The Supreme Court doesn't hear issues of guilt, it hears issues of legality. As such, the Supreme Court issues decisions, not punishment. So surely they knew this execution time was coming already, it would not have come strictly from the Supreme Court.
(And having Mendoza on the bench? Well, I don't know what the underlying issue in this supposed case was, but I can tell you, the Supreme Court would not grant an appeal solely based on the idea that they thought the death penalty was wrong. That breaches so many articles of the Constitution, it's not funny.)
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