I shared in this post yesterday some of my early thoughts about the Supreme Court's new Eighth Amendment juvenile LWOP decision in Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259 (S. Ct. April 22, 2021) (available here). Though disappointed by the outcome, my long-standing concerns with the Supreme Court's jurisprudence in this arena (as discussed in pieces here and here) perhaps led me to be not too startled by the Court's work. But, as evidenced by some of the commentary I have seen about Jones in the last few days, it seems many are quite aggrieved. Here is an abdridged round up:
From Josh Blackman, "Conservative Justices Do Not Need To Apologize For Making Socially-Conservative Rulings; I'm looking at you Justice Kavanaugh."
From Rory Fleming, "The Supreme Court’s Abhorrent Decision to Back Life-Without-Parole for Kids"
From Ruth Marcus, "At the Supreme Court, a tale of two Bretts"
From John Pfaff, "It is ludicrous for the Supreme Court to say children are irredeemable"
From Mark Joseph Stern, "Brett Kavanaugh’s Opinion Restoring Juvenile Life Without Parole Is Dishonest and Barbaric"
From Elliot Williams, "Supreme Court's staggering deviation from precedent"
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