Former navy seal talks about the secret he was forced to keep. Its the most serious escalation of violence between israel and hezbollah in a decade. Earlier today hezbollah missiles killed two Israeli Soldiers, injured seven. Israel followed with its own strikes. Its happening on a small strip of disputed land between lebanon and syria and the Israeli Occupied Golan Heights. Nick schifrin is in Golan Heights. Nick . John, good evening. Im on that disputed spot right here. This is the occupied Golan Heights where im standing. That way is lebanon and that is syria. You can see the area between me and the board is actually a minefield. The incident happened a mile behind me, and israeli officials have given the indication, sorry, im losing my voice. Theyre giving indication that they dont want this to escalate. But the fact is that this area is the highest state of alert since the 2004. From two miles away hezbollah fighters fired six rockets two of them scored direct hits. In the first v
Take a walk with me inside the mind of Brett Jones. He was the plaintiff in
Jones v. Mississippi, the United State Supreme Court case I told you about Monday. In a 6-3 opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court rolled back two previous rulings regarding lifetime imprisonment without parole for minors. The previous rulings, called
Miller and
Montgomery, held that lifetime imprisonment for juvenile offenders was justified only in the worse of the worse cases when a convict is permanently incorrigible. In
Jones, Kavanaugh said nah. Life in prison s fine even if corrigible.
I want you to take this walk with me to understand more fully the complex layers of cruelty in Kavanaugh s opinion. By understanding that his point is not punishment in the service of democracy and justice but instead punishment in the service of impunity and power, I hope you will understand the need for calling this barbarism instead of what we usually call it. Conservatism seems like somethin
Kavanaugh just erased years of precedent to keep kids in jail forever
The Court s conservative wing will now let kids spent their lives behind bars.
Ignoring precedent to keep kids in jail forever isn t a very conservative legal move.Anjali Nair / MSNBC
April 24, 2021, 11:21 AM UTC
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