The Supreme Court has been overstepping its bounds lately. The most recent is the ruling that states cannot execute people convicted under the age of 18. I'm not going to judge whether I agree or not, just want to say that the Supreme Court is supposed to make ruling based on the Constitution, and there is nothing in the Constitution about the age at which you can be executed. The judgement referenced "the will of the majority" and "the international consensus," which are two things which the Supreme Court specifically should ignore. The entire basis of our system of government is that minorities will not be at the mercy of the tyranny of the majority, but apparantely the Supreme Court (scratch that, the left-wing of the Supreme Court, as I know Scalia dissented, and I bet that Thomas did as well) missed that day in social studies. As far as the international consensus goes, who the fuck cares what the rest of the world thinks? Until recently one of the things that was so great about the United States is that we did things our way, despite the rest of the world, and that has made us the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world. But the Supreme Court doesn't like that and wants to start modeling our laws on the rest of the world.

I hope the Republicans can get some conservative justices in who are strict constructionists. None of the possibilities I've seen for the higher court nominations are really all that far out there. Conservative, yes, strict constructionists, yes, religious fanatics, no! Oh, for those who don't know, strict constructionists read the Constitution as meaning exactly what it says, and they don't "reinterpret" it, as seems so popular on the left (and some right, when the occassion calls for it) throughout the last 100 years (social security, for instance, is something that has no place according to the Constitution, which lays out the powers of government, none of which include stealing money from my paycheck to give to old people).