you can play your semantic games all night, but that doesn't change the
facts.

"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:01:07 -0800, "Jonathan Ganz"
said:

Probably 9th Circuit... they're overrulled a lot, especially by the
neo-nazi
Supreme Court.

Surely you jest.

In that vein, Linda Greenhouse led off her front page editorial today by
explaining that the Supremes were going to decide whether a national
consensus had been reached on applying the death penalty to defendants who
were 16 or 17 when they committed their crimes. Some of us think deciding
whether there is a national consensus is what elections are for, not what
court cases are for.

BTW, the 9th Circuit is never "overruled" by the Supremes. But it's
regularly reversed. A case is overruled when a court changes its mind and
thinks it finally got the answer right. It's reversed when the folks who
know better tell the court it hasn't gotten the answer right yet.



Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27