SenatorCouzens
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« on: July 21, 2021, 06:15:10 PM » |
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What makes this tricky is there is the distinction between procedural rights before you are convicted many of which are textually based in the bill of rights, and then the separate question of what punishment can be delivered once you are duly convicted.
Someone like Alito is conservative/tough on both of those.
People like Gorsuch and Scalia are/were pretty libertarian on procedural rights when they were textually based, but less so when they aren't. As for punishment of those fairly convicted (i.e., procedural rights observed), they are conservative (pro death penalty, etc).
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