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Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
![“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)