Santorum This Week Goes 1 for 2
Right:
A new poll showing that Catholics are backing off support for the death penalty was no surprise to U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, an outspoken conservative Catholic, who says he has been re-examining his own view.
He has not become an abolitionist, and he believes church teaching against the death penalty carries less weight than its longer-standing opposition to abortion. But he questions what he once unquestioningly supported.
"I felt very troubled about cases where someone may have been convicted wrongly. DNA evidence definitely should be used when possible," he said.
That's right Rick, one innocent put to death by government is one too many.
Wrong:
"You have judicial tyranny here," Santorum told WABC Radio in New York. "Congress passed a law that said that you had to look at this case. He simply thumbed his nose at Congress."
Sorry, Rick. The 20th justice reviewing the case agreeing with the other 19 justices who reviewed the case does not equal tyranny just because it's not the outcome you wanted. Some (and by some I mean me) would argue that interfering in a state matter by a federal legislature which has no domain under it's written constitution to do so is much closer to tyranny.
A new poll showing that Catholics are backing off support for the death penalty was no surprise to U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, an outspoken conservative Catholic, who says he has been re-examining his own view.
He has not become an abolitionist, and he believes church teaching against the death penalty carries less weight than its longer-standing opposition to abortion. But he questions what he once unquestioningly supported.
"I felt very troubled about cases where someone may have been convicted wrongly. DNA evidence definitely should be used when possible," he said.
That's right Rick, one innocent put to death by government is one too many.
Wrong:
"You have judicial tyranny here," Santorum told WABC Radio in New York. "Congress passed a law that said that you had to look at this case. He simply thumbed his nose at Congress."
Sorry, Rick. The 20th justice reviewing the case agreeing with the other 19 justices who reviewed the case does not equal tyranny just because it's not the outcome you wanted. Some (and by some I mean me) would argue that interfering in a state matter by a federal legislature which has no domain under it's written constitution to do so is much closer to tyranny.
posted by soulpole66 at 12:49 AM
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It frightens me that, in what I feel is nothing more than a positioning point for the 2006 elections, Congress violated the 10th Amendment by intervening on the Schiavo case.
If Congress played their cards right, they could have passed some resolution denouncing her treatment and let the MSM run with it.
Oh, well,....
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