Justice

The LAT editorializes this morning on justice, arguing (1) that it is just to consider crimes against some citizens as deserving of greater punishments than similar crimes against other citizens and (2) that it is just for Supreme Court justices (or potential ones) to predetermine the outcomes of issues brought or to be brought before the court prior to hearing arguments.

Under a LAT judiciary, the rape of a mature lesbian would call for more severe punishment than the rape of a young girl.  And the killer of a healthy baby would go free so long as that baby had not yet inhaled a breath of air at the time of its death.