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?
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.
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The first of many?
And perhaps the last if an uproar is created.
Sorry? Touche in reference to what? I must have missed something...not unusual, lol.
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.
“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.
But trying to convince very many on these pages is still difficult.
bttt
....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?
“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?
I knew that opening this thread was gonna raise my blood pressure.
Bush is looking more and more like an internationalist — a one worlder”
The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
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?
This is Bush’s way of making Hillary more palatable to us.
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
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?
We 'see' now.
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.
I think so too.
I’ve had it up to here. And there. This gets more idiotic everyday.
I keep trying to console myself with that. Maybe someday it will work.
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.
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