U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal
Jul. 1, 2015
Scalia finally got his way
Not on same-sex marriage, of course, but in a federal sentencing case that could send shock waves through California penitentiaries.
Last Friday, Justice Antonin Scalia finally got his way. Not on same-sex marriage, of course, but in the other case the court handed down that day. In Johnson v. U.S., Scalia got five colleagues to go along with him on a proposition he alone had urged for years: The residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutionally vague. Despite the court's best limiting efforts, this decision will have shock waves that could reverberate all ...
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