U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body

NY Times ^ | March 10, 2005 | ADAM LIPTAK

[justshutupandtakeit]

The SC's job is to rule upon law and since NO law is created only by domestic forces but draws upon a long tradition of law outside the nation referring to foreign law violates no constitutional standard. Nor is this the first legal opinion which considers law elsewhere it is as old as the republic.

But you can get hysterical if you like.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"The SC's job is to rule upon law and since NO law is created only by domestic forces but draws upon a long tradition of law outside the nation referring to foreign law violates no constitutional standard. Nor is this the first legal opinion which considers law elsewhere it is as old as the republic.

But you can get hysterical if you like."

Let me ask again. WHAT LAW DID JUSTICE KENNEDY RULE ON?

[JSteff]

Some liberal professor ramblings from Mr. Spiro in "Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law" on http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=611101

This essay thus suggests a future in which international law is absorbed into U.S. law not because it is good - although it may well be that, too - but because rational institutional action will pull in that direction. This incorporation will occur in American constitutional law as in other areas, as international law ramifies through judicial and political channels. The essay attempts to marry Constructivist foregrounding of transnational actors with Liberal IR premises of institutional self-interest and domestic power-politics, sketching a new model of international relations under the moniker of liberal transnationalism

[jocon307]

You mean Bush did something where he put the interests of the US above those of Mexico?

That does rate a Hallelujah!

[Don Corleone]

Spiro was awarded an Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation fellowship to study the law of American citizenship in 1997-98...

Hmmmm?

[Unam Sanctam]

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

Governor Romney was accused of sexism when he called a female opponent's language "unbecoming". I'm glad the left has not ruled out the use of this good word permanently.

[zip]

Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of the Yale Law School and a former State Department official in the Clinton administration, said the Bush administration's strategy was counterproductive.

Yep, H. Hongju Koh, Great American patriot. /sarcasm off.
I am getting damned sick and tired of "former .....Clinton"..appointees being quoted to belittle President Bush's administration. Klintoon's appointees were so partisan that reality escaped them. The real tragedy is that DOJ, State, CIA etc are still stacked with klintoon people. Maybe getting rid of left leaning "Appeaser" Powell and replacing him with a real American (Dr Rice) will help straighten out the State Dept. Now if his new AG can whip DOJ into shape, we might overcome the backstabbing leaks from within.

[zip]

Don't SC Justices have to swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America?

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"Don't SC Justices have to swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America?"

That is the way I have always understood it.

[zip]

I guess the thing that bothers me the most is that two of the nine Justices have basically stated that som of their rulings were based on "International Law" and world opiniion. As my son once said "I don't understand everything that I know".

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"I guess the thing that bothers me the most is that two of the nine Justices have basically stated that som of their rulings were based on "International Law" and world opiniion. As my son once said "I don't understand everything that I know".

I was always under the impression that they were supposed to be working for us, US citizens. When were they moved to the UN and does the UN pay them? This is disgusting.