Joel Aelwyn

Just to sum things up from news about SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) today, the conservative position is:

If it is a question of the first amendment right of a corporation being restricted due to a demonstrable pattern of past abuse of such rights, vs. a state's right to declare whether or not that speech is a crime *at all*, then SCOTUS must strike down the law in question.

But…

If it is a question of the eight amendment right of a human being to not be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment, then SCOTUS striking down laws that require mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile murderers — not saying that such a sentence is, itself, unacceptable, only that legally mandating that sentence is — then SCOTUS has no business wading into “ethical and moral decisions” that should be reserved to the states.

Thankfully, at least the second one went to the side of sanity.