In an interesting decision handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday slammed the California Prisons system for it's gross overcrowding and quite frankly ludicrous conditions and the Supremes sent down an opinion which pretty much told the Golden State to release up to 46,000 inmates to get this mess under control.
A couple of interesting things about this case: first, (courtesy of Slate) we get a round up in which is revealed that Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority attached some photos of the conditions in California prisons to his opinion. I think that's happened maybe one other time in the history of the Supreme Court. Maybe. Whatever- point is, it doesn't happen often. They're usually about telling, not showing.
Second of all, you know who was pissed off by all of this? Oh, that's right- Justice Scalia, who read a scathing dissent from the bench which sounds like vintage evil genius Scalia. Enjoy it here...
The Golden State's woes continue I guess and don't do much to convince me of the glories of Progressive politics. In fact, they don't seem to be making much progress at all.
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