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The five conservatives on the US Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion issued at 2 in the morning, allow DOJ to short-circuit federal appellate process to allow it to execute people in the middle of a global pandemic. https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1282922085669654530
Breyer and Ginsburg, in dissent, reiterate their call to revisit the constitutionality of the death penalty — and say that federal executions “promise[]” to give us more examples of the constitutional problems with carrying out executions.
![Breyer and Ginsburg, in dissent, reiterate their call to revisit the constitutionality of the death penalty — and say that federal executions “promise[]” to give us more examples of the constitutional problems with carrying out executions.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec3gyAEXsAAaJc9.jpg "Breyer and Ginsburg, in dissent, reiterate their call to revisit the constitutionality of the death penalty — and say that federal executions “promise[]” to give us more examples of the constitutional problems with carrying out executions.")
Sotomayor and Ginsburg and Kagan in dissent note that the Supreme Court decision tonight “forever deprives” those scheduled to be executed with the ability to challenge the constitutionality of their lethal injections.
