US Supreme Court limits Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel

On May 26, the US Supreme handed down a ruling weakening a key civil liberties protection laid down in the first ten amendments of the US Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.

In the case of Montejo v. Louisiana, decided by a five-to-four majority, the court limited the right to legal counsel that is stipulated in the Sixth Amendment. “Swing” Justice Anthony Kennedy joined with the four justices who comprise the right-wing bloc on the court to override one of the court’s prior decisions, a highly unusual occurrence. The decision, authored by the ideological leader of the court’s right wing, Antonin Scalia, and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Thomas Alito, overruled Michigan v. Jackson, decided in 1986.

Justice John Paul Stevens, who authored the Jackson opinion, wrote a dissent which was joined by Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and, except for a footnote, by Justice Stephen Breyer. Stevens also read his dissent aloud in court, something rarely done.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/supc-j15.shtml

why aren't *you* in the streets

C'mon, Hannah, get out there, girl. Stop tapping on that keyboard! You're the one lecturing others.

i've done my time, & got the scars to prove it.

and where can Hannah be found? tapping safely away on her keyboard, posting endless amounts of unadulterated propaganda from the wsw.

:rofl:

at home.

where they actually understand the language, players & history.