Politicians Bash Yesterday’s Death Penalty Ruling

Politicians from the affected states claim they refuse to support yesterday’s ruling.

So, the legislators in the affected states are opposing this ruling, and are vowing to rewrite these laws anyway, to force the Supreme Court to address this issue again. Good.

One thing important to remember about all SC rulings – they are not laws. They are guidelines for lower courts to follow – in short, they set precedent, so it’s highly likely that all lower courts will rule in the same manner as the Supreme Court. However, in terms of law, they only have absolute authority in the specific case they heard. All other cases are simply “assumed” to follow in the same path. Thus, these states are absolutely in their right to ignore this ruling and pass new laws – they’ll simply be unable to enforce them until the SC reverses its ruling today.

More on the rest of today’s upcoming rulings, especially the gun ban, later.

–J.L.