Supreme Court: Dimming the Light of Sinai

The Supreme Court s decision this week requiring that only unanimous juries may bring in a conviction of a serious crime rests uneasily with The New York Sun. It s not that the court overturned a precedent that has stood for close to 50 years, though Justice Alito wrote a brilliant dissent* on this head. Nor is it the particulars of the conviction that was just overturned. We wonder, though, what Antonin Scalia might have done. And herein lies our story.

via www.nysun.com