Reposted by @jrbrand07.bsky.social
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
![“Some of our most ‘egregious’ cases have been those in
which we have granted relief based on an unfounded Eighth
Amendment claim,” and Atkins is certainly near the top of
the list. Glossip v. Gross, 576 U. S. 863, 905–906 (2015)
(THOMAS, J., concurring). Atkins’s rejection of “the historical meaning of the [Eighth] Amendmen[t],” see Ramos, 590
U. S., at 106, has denied the justice governments have
given to murder victims from time immemorial, Glossip,
576 U. S., at 905–906 (THOMAS, J., concurring). And it degrades the mildly intellectually disabled by putting them
“on a level with . . . infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals”—those who cannot “‘have known better.’” C. S.
Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 13 Issues
in Religion and Psychotherapy 147, 151 (1987); see Atkins,
536 U. S., at 318, 319–320. In a future case, the Court
should overrule Atkins and restore “the Cruel and Unusual
Punishments Clause’s fixed meaning in resolving any challenge brought under it.” Grants Pass, 603 U. S., at 562
(THOMAS, J., concurring). For now, I respectfully dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreidhjkak5ifhylniknek4qbpr7xyx6zj6m3vpxeeqkfohry6xrcnoi)
