Why Does the GOP Even Exist?
Two Republicans join with four Leftists on the Supreme Court to release 30,000 thugs from prison to prey on honest Americans.
It is a world gone mad. We have Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown effectively defending the 10th Amendment for the right to run his own state prisons.
Meanwhile two so-called small government "Conservative" Republicans on the Supreme Court voted with the four Liberals to take control of State prisons and release 30,000 thugs, thieves and rapists from prison.
Republicans keep claiming they support the Constitution while more often than not in Congress or on the courts they eagerly support the growth of the Big Brother Centralized State.
In an act of total insanity the Court ignored the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights and ordered the release into the public of tens of thousands of violent criminals.
In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates — nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners — by the end of the year to improve to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.
Brown also blasted the decision Friday, saying, "California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes, about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana," reports US News NBC.
The legal issue was Brown's request for a stay of a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ordering the state to release about 9,600 inmates in the short term as part of larger proceedings requiring it to reduce its prison population by about 30,000.
The panel's demands, Brown has argued repeatedly, create a serious public safety threat. The state had asked the high court to put the panel's order on hold while an appeal goes forward.
But the Supreme Court was not persuaded. The majority denied Brown's request for a stay without comment.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a sharply worded dissent, which Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Samuel Alito also dissented, but he did not join Scalia.
Scalia wrote that he does not believe the federal courts have the authority to order California to remove thousands of inmates from its prison system.
"California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes — about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana," he wrote. The order, he wrote, goes "beyond the power of the courts."
(Los Angeles Times)
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