THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† They May Be Supreme, But They Are Not Infallible: The Supreme Court will not reopen a LA case in which it ruled 5 to 4 that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty on child rapists, based in part on what appeared to be an erroneous belief that there is no evidence of a national consensus in favor of putting child rapists to death, reports The Washington Post. After the ruling, a legal blogger unearthed a law passed by Congress in 2006 that made child rape a capital offense under military law. But applying the death penalty “for rape of a child or an adult when committed by a member of the military does not draw into question our conclusions that there is a consensus against the death penalty for the crime in the civilian context and that the penalty here is unconstitutional," wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, author of the original decision.
† ICE Goes After Fugitive Aliens (Finally): U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have concluded a three-week sweep of fugitive aliens throughout CA that netted more than 1,150 people who have ignored court-ordered deportations or slipped back into the U.S. after being deported, reports The Associated Press.
† Fallout From NIE Nuke Report: David Kay, who headed the Iraq Survey Group from 2003 until early 2004, reckons that Iran is two to five years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, reports The Associated Press. Kay believes that a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure by the U.S. or Israeli military would delay the Islamic republic’s plans by one to two years at the most, and advocates military intervention only if “the Iranians had transferred a nuclear weapon to a third party, a terrorist organization or another state” or lobbed a nuke at another nation.
† Updates To Previous Posts (third item, A To Z Approach On Illegal Immigration In AZ): AZ is not the only state seeing its forged documented alien population fleeing back to their native lands. The Wall Street Journal, which favors illegal immigration because it’s “good for business” – never mind that subprime home loans to illegal immigrants and other people who weren’t credit worthy are at the root (second item) of our economic woes - tells the saga of Ambrosio Carrillo, who sneaked into the U.S. from Guatemala to work on construction jobs in MD and was recently forced to repatriate himself because work here in the U.S. dried up. ¡Oh, bua, bua! (That’s boo hoo in Spanish.)
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