The Lakers have apparently traded the rights to Cheick Samb, their second round pick, to Detroit for Maurice Evans, a 6-5 guard who averaged 0.8 assists per game last year.
They then traded next year’s second rounder for Danilo Pinnock, a 6-5 guard who averaged 3.1 assists per game as a junior in college last year.
Add those two to Jordan Farmar, the 6-2 guard out of UCLA who averaged 5.1 assists that they got in the first round, and it looks like the Lakers really, really, really want to get rid of Smush.
In the past I have argued that the Congress needs to start stripping jurisdiction from the Supreme Court. Well, it has in the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. Unfortunately, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the court decided that doesn’t really apply, over the objections of a great dissent by Justice Scalia. Justices Thomas and Alito also dissented (the Chief Justice had to recuse himself, having been on the Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court overturned), beautifully tag-teaming to dismantle the majority and plurality on this.
So, as Mark I points out at Red State, we may have a Constitutional crisis on our hands, all because Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and Kennedy want the terrorists at Guantanamo not to be tried by a military commission that was set up.
What a mess.