"Ivanhoe" details, in part, the animosity between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons; good history. It also puts a pretty bad hit on the Jews. Scott wrote the novel in 1819 and it may have been Scott's intent, not to mock the Jews, but to point out the injustice of prejudice to the Jews not only during the 1200's but also in the England of 1819. Anyway.. its a good read and the mysteries are spinning.
Jeff, on another note, Thomas strains the meaning of the statute. He tries his best to invoke strict statutory constuction, but.... Alito is the practical jurist in the dissent. Although the act is obviously statutory, its root is the Constitution, and their is no way the founding father's intended to make the speedy trial right a technical provision to sandbag the government; which is exactly what happened under Thomas' strained opinion; what idiots; Thomas should have stayed with recycling coke cans.
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Have you no regard for the ends of justice? I think the problem here was one of statutory drafting, rather than of statutory construction. Eight appellate courts interepreted it one way, and a majority of the Supreme Court interpreted it another. It is obviously not an exemplar of clarity.
ReplyDeleteJustice Thomas had to leave the Coke can business. People kept putting naughty things on them.
Did you see Clarence Thomas on 60 Minutes? The camera was on him while he was driving his huge-ass motor coach on a cross-country trip. A car passed him and cut him off. On camera. He hits the gas. Tailgates the guy at probably 70mph and lays on the horn. On camera.
ReplyDeleteNo lack of clarity here. Clarence is clearly an ass.