Posted on 07/30/2010 1:48:19 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says judges can look to foreign law for good ideas without diminishing their ability to apply U.S. law faithfully.
Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers Friday that American judges can learn from their foreign counterparts when seeking solutions to "trying questions."
Ginsburg said high court nominee Elena Kagan got it right when she told senators at her confirmation hearing that she was in favor of good ideas "wherever you can get them."
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Meanwhile, our almost useless "opposition" party is going to collaborate in confirming Kagan, who I'm sure agrees with Ginsburg.
Here’s my good idea Justice Ginsberg -
APPLY THE US CONSTITUTION AS WRITTEN! PERIOD!!!
No legislation without representation.
If they insist on going down this route, the SC should be elected every two years.
Which I am guessing won’t meet with their approval.
Dear Ginsberg,
Read my tagline.
It was and is a good idea.
THIS is the kind of baggage that’s going to doom Gingrich’s chance to be President. The image if him and Nancy sitting on the couch is etched into my memory and I can’t get it out.
NO you unqualified twit!
The U.S. Constitution is THE ONLY document you are authorized to consult!
For perspective, read the Federalist Papers.
How about we try Saudi law for a while and we can start by throwing homosexuals off buildings!
Ginzburg never impressed me with her modicum of wisdom, that’s for sure.
Ginsburg and Kagan are two peas in a pod!
Ginsburg’s flaw is that she doesn’t see any exceptionalism in the history of the US and the perfection of our legal system compared to any other on the planet. (Very much like Obama). She views the middle east as a place to “learn from” as well as Communist Cuba and Russia. She is a deluded, non-thinking Progressive who does not believe in Moral Absolutes but bows down to false gods. Her reasoning is twisted and she believes in the power of the State to impose her type of (non) reasoning on the masses. The State knows what is best for the individual.....oh, that “common good” and end justifies the means cr*p.
IF the Constitution has no say on the subject
IF the law has no say on the subject
IF stare decisis has no say on the subject
IF orbiter dicta has no say on the subject
THEN you can look to foreign sources non-binding inspiration as long as those sources do not disagree with any of the above.
We are a common-law country, which means the courts are allowed to make law.
NO you unqualified twit!
I think she has dementia. Can they make a SCJ step down if they have dementia? If so, she has it.
Her former colleague Sandra Day O'Connor said pretty much the same thing.
And WHO is to determine WHAT foreign laws should be looked at for “good ideas”???
Perhaps a Muslim Supreme Court Judge in the future - GO HELP US - would choose to review Saudi Laws and Sharia practices.
What this woman and her former colleague is stating is what many statists and globalists have felt for some time.
When you reject the uniqueness of America and its political system - which really IS unique as any serious student of history can tell you, than any old law anywhere on the globe is relevant to our society.
I hate these creatures like Bader_Ginsburg more than anyone can imagine, but the REAL villains here are the shallow-minded Americans who helped put the creature who nominated her into the Oval Office, who continue to elect the same gutless serial career office holding criminals who approve people like her, who stand by and allow comments like this to go unpunished.
And this regard, the GOP is as culpable as the Democrats.
They allowed ONE judge who thinks just like this miscreant - Soto-Mayor, to be appointed, and are about to allow another, Kagan, to be put on the bench. They do this without a whimper, without a complaint, with a hint or suggestion of a threatened filibuster.
Congress needs to be cleaned out even more than the Oval Office. Replace all those over-compensated and over-perked elitists with decent patriotic Americans and the Marxist in the White House will be powerless to harm us.
HUH??? HUH???
There is no precedent relative to Sharia Law.
The Courts are NOT empowered to make law in America.
What on earth are you saying?????
Our Constitution has all the “good ideas” needed.
Hello?
Oh, never mind.
We could look to Mexico for inspiration WRT immigration laws, give’em a dose of their own medicine.
Read up on common law. It is more limited in our system than would be in a pure common law system because the courts have to defer to statutory law, and exhaust it, before resorting to common law implementation. Fair Use in copyright is an example. Statutory law was not specific on the issue, and it remained common law for decades (relying on "progress of the arts and sciences") before it became part of statutory law.
The same Ginsburg who wrote a paper in support of lowerng the age of consent for sex between an adult and a minor to 11 yers old.
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