Today's Ruling by SCOTUS based on International Opinion

My Way News and SCOTUSblog is reporting that juvenile death sentences, which, until now were legal in 19 states, have been nullified by the Supreme Court. The majority on the court, once again turned to the opinions of the international community and not the Constitution of the United States:

Taking side in the ongoing debate within the Court over the role that law in other nations and in the world should play in the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, the majority declared: "It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty."

Justice O'Connor, in a dissenting opinion speaking only for herself, said the Court had not found a genuine national consensus against juvenile executions, so, she said, it simply relied on its own independent moral judgment that death is a disproportionate penalty for any 17-year-old offender. "I do not subscribe to this judgment...The Court has adduced no evidence impeaching the seemingly reasonable conclusion reached by many state legislatures that at least some 17-year-old murderers are sufficiently mature to deserve the death penalty in an appropriate case."

Justice Scalia, in a markedly bitter dissent, condemned every facet of the Court's approach to the Eighth Amendment issue. He said the consensus discerned by the majority was on "the flimsiest of grounds," and he argued that the Court illegitimately had cast aside the judgment of the people's representatives, and substituted its own proclamation of itself as "the sole arbiter of our nation's moral standards." He also lambasted the majority for its reliance upon what he called "like-minded foreigners."

H/T to Rush and Drudge for bringing this to my attention. This Supreme Court ruling is right out of the pages of Mark Levin's new book, Men In Black. Rulings like this render the constitution null and void and place international opinion at the forefront of the Court's concern. A polite note to your representatives in Washington may be in order!