"[O]ur Eighth Amend­ment cases are no longer tied to any objective indicia of society’s standards."

"Our Eighth Amendment case law is now entirely inward looking," writes Justice Alito, dissenting today in Miller v. Alabama — PDF — which declared it mandatory life imprisonment to be "cruel and unusual" punishment when imposed on a juvenile.

Unless our cases change course, we will continue to march toward some vision of evolutionary culmination that the Court has not yet disclosed.

Do you think the Court has a "vision of evolutionary culmination"?