U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body

NY Times ^ | March 10, 2005 | ADAM LIPTAK

[Happy2BMe]

Read sometime the Oath of Office for the POTUS sometime.

It is the President's job description.

[madison10]

Prompted by an international tribunal's decision last year ordering new hearings for 51 Mexicans on death rows in the United States, the State Department said yesterday that the United States had withdrawn from the protocol that gave the tribunal jurisdiction to hear such disputes.

YES!!! Why were we even IN this tribunal?

[justshutupandtakeit]

The point is he never said any opinion was BASED on international whatever just that they found the Teenage Killer case "consistent" with international whatever. They didn't even need to do that since 1) teenage killers are almost never executed anyway or sentenced to death and 2) many states have no death penalty for anyone.

The Justices don't need to look abroad to make bad law (unfortunately.)

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is false read the ruling if you care to be accurate. He never said any rulings have been "BASED" upon international law.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but hasn't the Supreme Court pretty much been a branch of the world court?

[evad]

Now if only we would withdraw from the U.N.

One thing at a time.

It may require the election of a 3rd Bush.

[BARLF]

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said.
sore-loser? . Prof. Spiro, are you a FR lurker?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said. "If we can't win, we're not going to play."

The "game" is over. We won.

[Finger Monkey]

Clever, very clever. Diabolical, really.

[NautiNurse]

The Justices don't need to look abroad to make bad law (unfortunately.)

No, they don't--but Kennedy did just that--at the very least to bolster his opinion and/or to make himself feel better.

[monkeywrench]

Justice Scalia seemed to think otherwise. Read his opinion.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I see no damage in pointing out that the opinion was consistent with views currently held around the world. I don't particularly care but it doesn't hurt anything.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I was just commenting on what Kennedy actually said in the opinion as opposed to the misimpression which is widespread here.

[NautiNurse]

I like Scalia's opinion better.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I do not agree with the ruling either. But I fear we are a minority within the country.

[southronbtgoG]

Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at the University of Georgia, said the withdrawal was unbecoming


These people are everywhere..on a positive note--they are being exposed.Thank You Gore ,,for the internet.

[RightWhale]

This kind of unilateralism annoys the bologna out of the Euros. However, the Euros have been doing their own international unilateralism for decades, so they can't play the moral superiority card.

[mellyK]

'Sharia' has a death penalty.

[TitansAFC]

---"I don't mean to rain on your parade, but hasn't the Supreme Court pretty much been a branch of the world court?"---

Yup. But we can correct that via the process. We cannot, however, exert any influence over a "world court."

I'm still happy. Long way to go, though.....

[Zoey]

Yes! Thank you President Bush.