The Supreme Court Stands Alone

HumanEvents.com ^ | 04/01/2008 | Thomas P. Kilgannon

[dr.zaeus]

This makes me proud.

[definitelynotaliberal]

The World Court got a whoopin last week when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Medellin v. Texas

Those words are just beautiful.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The courts are a major reason that I won’t be sitting this election out. McCain may not give us exactly what we want, but the Obamanation will certainly give us another Ginsburg.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The courts are a major reason that I won’t be sitting this election out. McCain may not give us exactly what we want, but the Obamanation will certainly give us another Ginsburg.

[ZULU]

“In so doing, it raises for inspection this notion of “international law.” Global governance activists insist that a body of universal law exists to which nations and their citizens are legally bound to conform. They believe there is a judicial hierarchy in which our Constitution can be trumped by the UN Charter and the Supreme Court overruled by foreigners.”

Jorge El Segundo el al, the globalists in the White House and Congress, subscribe to this tripe.

Thank God America and not the White House won this one.

I hope Mr. Medellin and his fellow monsters meet what is as close to their just fate in Texas as possible. They should be hanged - right in the middle of Crawford, Texas.

[American Quilter]

Good for the (six members of the) court! Fifty years ago, of course, no president would have ordered the review, and no one would have considered granting Europe, or any other country, the right to overturn our legal decisions.

[mtbopfuyn]

“Our Framers,” Roberts reminded us, “established a careful set of procedures that must be followed before federal law can be created under the Constitution -- vesting that decision in the political branches, subject to checks and balances.”

That just needed repeating.

[colorado tanker]

This was published in Human Events.

The judges on that World Court might learn something if they read the document that begins, "When in the course of human events . . . ."

[mkjessup]

THANK YOU Chief Justice John Roberts!

Now would you PLEASE stay off those damn ladders? We need you to stay around a while!

[bamahead]

“[N]ot all international law obligations automatically constitute binding federal law enforceable in the United States courts,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. He observed that allowing “the judgments of an international tribunal a higher status than that enjoyed by ‘many of our most fundamental constitutional protections,’” was never a consideration of those who negotiated the UN Charter -- the treaty that created the ICJ.

Sigh...I think I just fell in love with CJ Roberts :)

[11th Commandment]

” was never a consideration of those who negotiated the UN Charter"

You mean the intent? Chief Justice Roberts is such a maroon; a perfect opportunity to make law from the bench and he blows it by an obscure concept know as original intent.

[Oatka]

Medellin is a case in point. When the ICJ issued its ruling, President Bush caved -- not to international authority, but to international opinion. “I have determined,” the President wrote to the Attorney General, “that the United States will discharge its international obligations under the decision of the International Court of Justice...by having State courts give effect to the decision.”

George Bush - the Disaster that keeps on giving. Thank God he's gone next January.

[definitelynotaliberal]

You’re assuming scholarship when we’re not even sure of literacy.

[rockinqsranch]

This ruling makes me really want to get out there and kick some Obama/Hillary/Democrat voters’ butts, or crack them on the sides of their heads with a 2” x 4” to try to get it across what will happen if their Candidate wins the WH with seats for SCOTUS coming available. Useless isn’t it.

I s’pose the best bet would be to remind those of the Conservative base the importance of voting for McPain if for only the reason of the possibility he would select Constitutionalists to replace those leaving the SCOTUS.

No guarantees with this guy are there?

[MEGoody]

So the good news is that a majority of the Supreme Court understands that “international law” is conceptual and voluntary.

Very true. The question is. . .don't we want our citizens to have access to the U.S. consultate if they are arrested in a foreign country? If the answer is no, then there is no problem. If the answer is yes, then this decision is an issue.

[MEGoody]

George Bush - the Disaster that keeps on giving.

I assume George Bush would want U.S. citizens to have access to the U.S. consulate if they are ever arrested in a foreign country. Therefore, he would expect the U.S. to abide by the same 'international law' he would expect other countries to abide by.

[Gasshog]

well, in the future let them notify the Mexican consulate...

then hang em.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It seems the 3 justices who decided that they are inferior to international courts should just resign as their incompetence and dnagerous tendencies have been displayed. I wonder who they are???

[definitelynotaliberal]

The usual suspects - Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg.