The decision in question is whether a state (the one that begins with F, naturally) can send juveniles who haven't killed anybody to prison for life without parole.
The forces of enlightenment and reason narrowly won this case 5-4. I'll leave the speculation as to which four voted, "throw away the key, and to hell with the Eighth Amendment," to you all. I trust 99.99% of you would guess correctly.
This is what we have to deal with. Four members of the nation's highest court who couldn't give a millionth of a shit about the Constitution. I would say that any justice who would vote in favor of the state beginning with F should be summarily impeached, disbarred, and tried for treason (in that order), but I would be repeating myself. I think the same 99.99% who can correctly guess which four justices I'm talking about would probably agree with me on this anyway.
I would also be repeating myself if I were to suggest that failing the aforementioned remedy, FDR's idea to expand the Court to fifteen members in an attempt to neutralize the right wing is ready for prime time.
Finally, to those of you who fret over President Obama's Supreme Court pick, I, for one, have no doubts in my mind that a Justice Kagan would agree with the majority that locking up juveniles who haven't murdered anyone in prison and throwing away the key after breaking it off in the lock is so clearly unconstitutional as to not require debate. We really don't need a "liberal" justice as much as we need one who really does understand and take seriously her role in upholding the Constitution. If we get that, that's liberal enough for me, and it ought to be liberal enough for you.