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Obama on Kennedy v. Louisiana

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

This being an election year, the ink was not dry on the opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana before bloggers (and blog commenters) were asking how it would affect the presidential election and whether it would give a boost to John McCain. Without missing a beat, Barack Obama has criticized the opinion. What does it say about the Court's finding of a national consensus if the de facto presidential nominees of both major political parties disagree with the supposed consensus? Obama is dancing the election two-step, of course. Swing to the sideline to win your party's nomination, then swing back to the center to win the general election. He has irked some activists that way, reports Susan Davis in the WSJ, but I doubt that irking will cost him anything...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).