Court Opinion

ID: 7593880
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:49:36.872484+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:42.054425
License: Public Domain

I cannot distinguish this case from Grady v. Corbin,495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990). I personally agree with Justice Scalia's dissent in Grady, 495 U.S. at ___,110 S.Ct. at 2096-2105; however, at this time that is a dissent and not the law.
The second paragraph in Article VI of the Constitution of the United States provides:
 "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; . . . shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
If I were writing on a clean slate, freed from the deference that I do and must give to the opinions of the United States Supreme Court, I would vote to deny the petition for a writ of prohibition. However, I have given my solemn oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, as I understand it, and that includes the second paragraph of Article VI; therefore, I must dissent.