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Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
ClickonDetroit ^ | October 7, 2007 | AP

Posted on 10/07/2007 3:48:59 AM PDT by ShadowDancer

Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate

Sunday, October 07, 2007

WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

The case of Jose Ernesto Medellin has become a confusing test of presidential power that the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.

"The president does not agree with the ICJ's interpretation of the Vienna Convention," the administration said in arguments filed with the court. This time, though, the U.S. agreed to abide by the international court's decision because ignoring it would harm American interests abroad, the government said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bushlegacy; crimaliens; hispandering; immigration; internationallaw; josemedellin; medellin; readdailykos; sovereignnation; voteclinton2008; worldcourt
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To: devolve

The first of many?

And perhaps the last if an uproar is created.


61 posted on 10/07/2007 2:46:34 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: bill1952

Sorry? Touche in reference to what? I must have missed something...not unusual, lol.


62 posted on 10/07/2007 4:53:30 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Support Duncan Hunter in YOUR State....http://duncanhunter.meetup.com/1/)
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To: em2vn

To some of us Mr. Bush has always been seen as a one-worlder. But still, to many on these pages, he has not been so seen, and to some is yet so unseen.


63 posted on 10/07/2007 5:38:16 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: upchuck

“More like? Hell, he IS a one worlder.

“The sovereignty of our country means absolutely nothing to this man. He has demonstrated that over and over.”


Correct. But is is still unclear to many on these pages. Some are coming around, so I say, “looking more and more like . . .” etc.


64 posted on 10/07/2007 5:40:42 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

But trying to convince very many on these pages is still difficult.


65 posted on 10/07/2007 5:42:15 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: ShadowDancer

bttt


66 posted on 10/07/2007 6:02:11 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: ShadowDancer

....putting the value of a POS Messican nationals life above those of a US citizens. This is the last straw for me.
I can not support this POTUS in any way, shape or form anymore. Why doesn’t he just anoint himself the King of Mexico after he leaves office?


67 posted on 10/07/2007 7:38:41 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: rpgdfmx

“I hope he from time to time remembers his job is to uphold the Constitution of the United States,”

Would that be the same Constitution that he swore to uphold and protect our Republic?


68 posted on 10/07/2007 7:42:06 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: ShadowDancer

I knew that opening this thread was gonna raise my blood pressure.


69 posted on 10/07/2007 8:01:57 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: John Leland 1789

Bush is looking more and more like an internationalist — a one worlder”

The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.


70 posted on 10/07/2007 8:05:03 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Bear_Slayer
"As a Mexican citizen he hold no loyalty to the US. Even with dual citizenship, any loyalty he might claim is dubious. If he is here legally, then how was he allowed here legally, being such a scum. We used to have requirements on residency. He should not be here and the quickest removal is legal lethal injection."

The whole case stinks. If we have to obey "international law" then anyone can come here, kill people and as long as they get back across the border they are scott-free. This guy is the poster child for the death penalty. He's also the poster child for why the f&$* don't we have some kind of border control to help prevent these scumbags from terrorizing us?

71 posted on 10/07/2007 8:33:34 PM PDT by boop (Trunk Monkey. Is there anything he can't do?)
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To: Guenevere

This is Bush’s way of making Hillary more palatable to us.


72 posted on 10/07/2007 8:35:19 PM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Kimberly GG

Your post 56 containing the SCOTUS ruling concerning this very case puts the entire issue to bed.

In particular, it refuted once and for all, the absurd post 18.

Thanks, - bill


73 posted on 10/07/2007 8:41:46 PM PDT by bill1952 (The 10 most important words for change: "If it is to be, it is up to me")
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To: devolve; potlatch; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik; Travis McGee; Jeff Head; Joe Boucher

Bush loves drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila and rapist-murderer Medellin, but not Border Patrol agents Ramos and Campeon, and innocent victims Jenny and Elizabeth. What does the Mexican government have on him?

74 posted on 10/07/2007 9:12:50 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: John Leland 1789
..and some of us were late to have ..'eyes that see'.. but Lord willing, not too late.

We 'see' now.

75 posted on 10/08/2007 5:18:49 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: Wolfie

You’re probably right, which only tells me that the system we have is completely and totally f——d. Time to hit the reset button if you ask me.


76 posted on 10/08/2007 5:19:55 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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To: Iwo Jima

I think so too.


77 posted on 10/08/2007 5:27:26 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: BearCub

I’ve had it up to here. And there. This gets more idiotic everyday.


78 posted on 10/08/2007 8:31:08 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: television is just wrong
we all voted for this man because of the alternative choices.

I keep trying to console myself with that. Maybe someday it will work.

79 posted on 10/08/2007 8:37:14 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Hydroshock

His many statements now over the last year on kow towing to Mexico, the Compean case, the fact that he still believes Islam is peace and is for open borders puts me now in the category, where I want this Admin. over as soon as possible and hopefully we get a tough minded man who will fight the war, close the borders, tell Mexico that our sovereignty is more necessary than taking their misfits for labor. Whether this is done or not, is still up in the air.


80 posted on 10/08/2007 10:40:10 AM PDT by phillyfanatic
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