Unless our cases change course, we will continue to march toward some vision of evolutionary culmination that the Court has not yet disclosed.Do you think the Court has a "vision of evolutionary culmination"?
"[O]ur Eighth Amendment cases are no longer tied to any objective indicia of society’s standards."
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"Our Eighth Amendment case law is now entirely inward looking," writes Justice Alito, dissenting today in Miller v. Alabama — PDF — which declared it mandatory life imprisonment to be "cruel and unusual" punishment when imposed on a juvenile.
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