plata o plomo

But, punishment still has to be tethered to the constitutional protections that we have all presumably agreed on.

So, it just feels strange to be arguing feverishly for a proposition that 99% of the public already agrees with me on.

And, if registries are punishment and meant to be retributive, then it really doesn't matter whether or not they benefit public safety in any way (they don't!), because punishment doesn't have to have a public safety benefit. It can just be pure retribution.

this law is cruel and unusual punishment because it occasions the necessity of my writing this brief which is further cruel and unusual punishment

man, on a good day, I barely know the difference

because it was like that?

I guess I wasn’t sure what to do when my old one stopped working.