SCOTUS Tells Foreign Court to Butt Out

HumanEvents.com ^ | 04/01/2008 | Ted Cruz

[misterrob]

And Jorge too!!

[PGR88]

Which 3 bone-head Justices were in the minority?????

[allmendream]

That was my question.

My guess?

Ginsburg, Kennedy, Souter.

[DoughtyOne]

There's only one proper path here folks...

[Neoliberalnot]

Imagine that. Just as the US once fought a revolutionary war to keep the king from running the show we now have the cajones to do the same again. SARC

Note that the sniveling progressive liberals are ready to relinquish our sovereignty at no cost to foreign despots. We could have another Hussein telling US citizens what to do and how to live and die.

[Neoliberalnot]

Who voted against the decision?

[allmendream]

Scratch Kennedy. He was correct on this one. Add Breyer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/25/ST2008032502998.html

Joining Roberts were the justices who are most consistently conservative: Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Justice John Paul Stevens concurred, but for different reasons than Roberts gave. Stevens agreed that Texas could not be forced to reconsider the case but urged it to do so nonetheless, especially because its failure to advise Medell¿n of his rights “ensnared the United States in the current controversy.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote in dissent that the court had misread the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which says properly ratified treaties “shall be the supreme law of the land” and that the treaties at issue did not need to be implemented by congressional legislation. “As a result, the nation may well break its word even though the president seeks to live up to that word and Congress has done nothing to suggest the contrary,” Breyer wrote. He was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter.

[allmendream]

Usual suspects. Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter.

I do not wish them health or long life.

[bert]

Kerry’s fault

[clamper1797]

I do not wish them health or long life.

I only wish them a swift and long retirement ...

[Repeal 16-17]

I was surprised that Justice Stevens voted correctly. A rare moment of intelligence by a Liberal Justice. Hopefully, this case will lead to the overruling of Holland v. Missouri (which allows the Congress to expand its authority via treaties). The Justices have ruled that the President can't circumvent the Constitution via a treaty. Now the Court should apply the same ruling to the Congress (and itself).

[Alberta's Child]

I would gladly concede that people like those who were convicted in this case should be subject to international law that supersedes U.S. law on the matter.

However, this would only make sense if a bunch of Mexican gang members arrested for heinous crimes like this in the U.S. were treated as they should . . . as FOREIGN INVADERS and PRISONERS OF WAR -- not "ordinary" criminals.

Every case like this should be tried before a military tribunal, not in a U.S. criminal court.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Note: 3 justices believe we need foreign rules.

[uncbob]

There are still 3 idiots on the Supreme Court

It should have been 9-0

[ApplegateRanch]

U.S. Out of the U.N.

And three “Justices” out of the U.S.

[tbw2]

Just off the bench and into a nursing home.

[LucyJo]

1.Ginsburg 2.Breyer 3.Souter. I’d bet money on it if I were a betting person.

[DoughtyOne]

Bingo

[longtermmemmory]

and now a treaty is being drafted to accomplish what the USSC said can’t be done.