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To: Nasty McPhilthy

I absolutely agree. I was stunned to see him argue that America must use INTERNATIONAL LAWS to temper our laws - WHAT ..?? Since when ..??

Like Mark Levin says, this is their PERSONAL POLICY they are making - and they're not conforming to the Constitution. Therefore, because this justice has not lived up to his "good behavior" standard - he needs to be removed.


7 posted on 04/16/2005 2:09:35 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: CyberAnt
I absolutely agree. I was stunned to see him argue that America must use INTERNATIONAL LAWS to temper our laws - WHAT ..?? Since when ..??

But Justice Kennedy did not say that. What he said was, "Our determination that the death penalty is disproportionate punishment for offenders under 18 finds confirmation in the stark reality that the United States is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty. This reality does not become controlling, for the task of interpreting the Eighth Amendment remains our responsibility. Yet at least from the time of the Court’s decision in Trop (Trop v Dulles, 1958), the Court has referred to the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive for its interpretation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.”"

8 posted on 04/16/2005 2:13:43 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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