In a discussion on a white nationalist Web site in 2003, members had posted the Lefkows' home address. Anti-Defamation League official Mark Pitcavage said another white supremacist's short-wave radio show last April had discussed killing the judge.
Investigators looking for a motive for the slayings searched for clues from the judge's professional life, including her role presiding over cases involving Hale and others.
Another paper reported that "about a dozen judges from the courthouse requested additional security Tuesday."
On another front, I was pleased by Justice Kennedy's ruling in Roper v. Simmons, finding the execution of juvenile offenders to be unconstitutional, and intrigued that Kennedy again placed so much emphasis on international opinion (as he did in Lawrence). To Justice Scalia, that a mere five members of the Supreme Court "and like-minded foreigners" could dictate such an interpretation is a "mockery" of our very constitutional system.
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