Justice Dept. Admits Error in Supreme Court Case »
Posted By Beau7890 3 months ago in NewsIn a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military and should have informed the Supreme Court of that fact while the justices were considering whether death was a constitutional punish
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Beau78903 months ago
About its omission, the Justice Dept. released a statement. From the article:
" 'We regret,' the statement said, 'that the department didn't catch the 2006 law when the case of Kennedy v. Louisiana was briefed.' "
I guess that's what happens when the department is staffed with recent graduates of Liberty University.
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