Justice Kennedy wrote the opinion today in Kennedy v. Louisiana, banning capital punishment for someone who rapes a child. Senator Barack Obama said today that he disagrees with this SCOTUS decision by Justices Kennedy, Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Souter.
But the latter three justices are Obama's model appointees, as he explained on May 8, 2008.
Wolf Blitzer: Are there members, uh Justices right now upon whom you would model...who do you like?
Barack Obama: Justice Breyer, Justice Ginsburg are very sensible judges. I think that Justice Souter, who was a Republican appointee, is a sensible judge.
And doubtless those three justices will say tomorrow that the Washington D.C. handgun ban is perfectly constitutional and consistent with the Second Amendment. Watch what they do, not what Obama says.
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