With respect to Melendez-Diaz decision, we still see far too much griping about some of the inconveniences to prosecutors and to the state. We’ve written about this before, but it can’t be stated enough:

The purpose of the US Constitution is not to make prosecuting criminals convenient and efficient. It is quite the opposite: to preserve and defend the freedoms and liberties of individuals over an intrusive state.So it continues to be irritating to read stories about Melendez-Diaz with quotes and headlines like “High Court Throws Sand Into the Wheels of Justice” and “wreaked havoc on the criminal justice system”, and in the NYT the decision is described as “costly, disruptive, and dangerous”.

As the Skeptical CPA accurately and succinctly writes, “boo-hoo.”

With the decision being revisited so quickly, and Justice Sotomayor thought to be more sympathetic to prosecutors than her predecessor, it is quite possible that Melendez-Diaz could be overturned, or at least partially rolled back.

And we’ve repeatedly seen how Chief Justice Roberts is an aggressive advocate for more state power every chance he gets.

It is unfortunate how we’ve lost our emphasis on Constitution freedoms. We support ever-increasing state control to be “tough on crime”, unaware that every freedom we give away is incredibly difficult to ever win back.