[lormand]

...attended by about 10,000 lawyers.

...wishing I could round them all up and ship them to North Korea.

I was gonna say "target rich environment" but I won't...or did I?

[GLH3IL]

"We're not bound by any foreign laws . . . "

We are when the SCOTUS bases it's decisions on those foreign laws. Screw this mentality. Stop the liberal idiocy..get Roberts confirmed as a first step!

[sierrahome]

"European Court of Human Rights"

My family escaped Europe to get away from Czech "human rights. This is Horse-Hockey

[lepton]

What's wrong with citing rulings by judges in other countries, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer asked attendees at the American Bar Association Convention in Chicago on Tuesday

They are not made under the auspices of the U.S. Constitution. It's a simple as that.

[Shawndell Green]

"What's wrong with citing rulings by judges in other countries, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer asked attendees at the American Bar Association Convention in Chicago on Tuesday."

If he don't know, then he has no business being on the court.

[SE Mom]

"To tell you the truth, in some of these countries, they're just trying to create these independent judicial systems to protect human rights, contracts. If we cite them sometimes -- not as binding, I promise, not as binding --well, that gives them a little boost sometimes . . . It sort of gives them a leg up for the rule of law."

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Un.
Believable.

[Politicalities]

"To tell you the truth, in some of these countries, they're just trying to create these independent judicial systems to protect human rights, contracts. If we cite them sometimes -- not as binding, I promise, not as binding --well, that gives them a little boost sometimes . . . It sort of gives them a leg up for the rule of law."

Yeah, like Great Britain and Canada. Those backwater nations, just barely out of the third world, really need our help as they struggle to build an independent judiciary. What a lame justification for an even lamer policy.

[FatherofFive]

"Why not learn something if we can"

He's right. We can learn from Europe. The Brits have started deporting radical Islamists.

[Libertarian444]

    MORON

[Congressman Billybob]

The writer of this story is the same "Legal Affairs Reporter" who wrote the Sun-Times piece that I attacked in my latest post. See "New ABA President Exposed."

He missed the story in that other piece. He misses it again, here. He may have the title for "Legal Affairs," but he surely doesn't understand his field. Two major stories are handed to him, IF he did his homework. He didn't. He missed it.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Another Open Letter to Hillary"

[MarkL]

The ABA voted Tuesday to endorse a shield law that would prevent reporters such as the New York Times' Judith Miller from having to go to jail to protect confidential sources.

Why should a "journalist" get such protections, but private citizens have it withheld? That's just one of the hugh problems I have with McCain/Feingold! GRRRR!!!

Mark

[Maceman]

What's wrong with citing rulings by judges in other countries, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer asked attendees at the American Bar Association Convention in Chicago on Tuesday.

Congress should impeach him so that he can go back to making ice cream.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Judge Breyer,

You are supposed to take each issue and compare or check it with the USA Constitution, and let the Constitution say "Yea or Nay"! Foreign laws has no relevance in our laws! Period!

Do you recall your oath?

[StonyBurk]

WHO administered the Oath of Office to Breyer? And has he been administered a mental exam to discover if he is sane
or cognizant enough to understand the comon meaning of the terms (language and intent) of that oath. And WHY has he not been Impeached? es verdad he was ominated by Clinton and everyone knows it all depends on the meaning of the "is"
now-In short we are no longer a nation of laws applied equally to all as Constitutional Republic but we have evolved like liberals form apes and on to amoebas and have
arrived at the oligarchy of depsots Jefferson warned of.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

What's wrong with citing rulings by judges in other countries, ...

I see no more harm in this than citing Cher or Madonna.