The More Strained the Reasoning Leading to a Transparently Unjust Ruling, the Better!
By Shorter Scalia and Thomas: By stopping Cory Maples’s execution, the majority has violated Alabama’s rights. Look, sure, he didn’t really have a “lawyer” in the sense of someone responsible for his case and working on it, but someone with “no substantive involvement” in his case once showed up in court to represent him. So it’s his fault that he missed a deadline — let the execution go forward!
More on this later, when my jaw is restored to its socket.