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Posted on 07/08/2011 1:01:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — In a 5-to-4 decision that split along ideological lines, the Supreme Court on Thursday evening rebuffed a request from the Obama administration that it stay the execution of a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas. The inmate, Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., was executed about an hour later.
……On Thursday, in an unsigned majority opinion, the Supreme Court said that Congress had had plenty of time to act and that the court would not now “prohibit a state from carrying out a lawful judgment in light of unenacted legislation.”
“Our task,” the majority wrote, “is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be.”
The majority also noted that “the United States studiously refuses to argue that Leal was prejudiced by the Vienna Convention violation,” suggesting that a fresh hearing would do Mr. Leal no good. He was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 16-year-old girl.
“We decline,” the majority wrote, “to follow the United States’ suggestion of granting a stay to allow Leal to bring a claim based on hypothetical legislation when it cannot even bring itself to say that his attempt to overturn his conviction has any prospect of success.”
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, in a dissent joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, wrote that the government’s request was modest, given that allowing the execution to proceed would, in the solicitor general’s words, “cause irreparable harm” to “foreign-policy interests of the highest order” and endanger Americans traveling abroad.
The court should defer to the executive branch’s assessment, Justice Breyer wrote, as “the Court has long recognized the president’s special constitutionally based authority in matters of foreign relations.”……..”In reaching its contrary conclusion,” Justice Breyer wrote, “the Court ignores the appeal of the president…
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Who will be president when the next Supreme Court Justice is selected?
libs rush in to defend convicted rapist
Almost a dream defendant for the libs. Illegal, Mexican, rapist, murderer, potential voter.
We may ask if the harpies would clamor for mercy for an American citizen convicted of kidnap, rape, murder.The New York Times cries out for a Mexican citizen.
Hussein and Holder insist upon a right of aliens to prey upon citizens.
Behold the traitor, the reason for the natural born clause in Article II.
Upstanding Mexican Citizen Is Executed as Justices Refuse to Step In
Because that's as good as you're going to get out of that stinking hellhole.
The NY Times makes me sick.
Awww... such pity for the poor, misguided “Mexican citizen.” Just can’t say rapist/murderer, can you, NYT?
"For most of the last two decades, Supreme Court conservatives led by Justice Antonin Scalia dominated the debates during oral arguments. They greeted advocates for liberal causes with sharp and sometimes caustic questions, putting them on the defensive from the opening minute.
But the tenor of the debate has changed in recent months, now that President Obama's two appointees to the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, have joined the fray and reenergized the liberal wing." Sotomayor, Kagan shift Supreme Court debates to the left
Damn freaks. I never vote for female judges. I’m prejudiced with good reason...so sue me. The liberal Supreme Court faction is the three female judges and whatever guy(s) they can rope in. All three of them are mad women in their way. Ruth Ginsburg look pinched and crazy. Sotomayor and Kagan are lesbians. The freaks are taking over
Each Line on this list has LINKS to more LINKS and more groups in the liberal : Lists of Lists of Lists of the Superstructure of the Left ready to join up And there are many more radical groups and organizations not listed, add to that the many groups who will fold like a cheap suit in the face of so many.
Hell, Bill Douglas was a lesbian.
The cats likely provided more intelligence to the organization than she did.
liberal superstructure.....what was not said is how much of this liberal superstructure of charities, NGOs, advocacy groups etc, lives off of government funding. Meaning, this is where their paychecks are coming from. No paycheck and no idealistic nincompoop is “volunteering” to help save humanity
The Federales and the states are providing jobs (paychecks) to thousands and millions of otherwise unemployable leftists through the liberal superstructure and also via unneeded bureaucracies such as the EPA.
To be fair— There also are plenty of private foundations (such as Ford, Rockefeller and Tides foundations) that help fund the liberal apparatus superstructure
I'll bet his decisions would fall under conservative these days. What was liberal back then passes for conservative today. What was communist back then falls under Democrat party today
These appointees are as fair and objective, as constitutionally driven as a big pile of nothing. Obama must be defeated.
Watch it 'amigos'. In Texas they don't play.
Fry Mumia.
True, along with the “Green movement environmentalists” — the global cooling, warming, climate change aka communist crowd and their indoctrination and inroads as government policy makers.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, in a dissent joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, wrote that the government’s request was modest, given that allowing the execution to proceed would, in the solicitor general’s words, “cause irreparable harm” to “foreign-policy interests of the highest order” and endanger Americans traveling abroad.
What a complete pantload. This crime happened in the 90’s. It has been brought up numerous times. Screw these idiots.
Its about time the POS was executed.
FUBO!
“...allowing the execution to proceed would...endanger Americans traveling abroad.”? Really? No evidence there but if we don’t punish, it certainly endangers Americans NOT traveling abroad. Those dopes who try to pass for women would change their tune as soon as they had a home invasion. Rape probably wouldn’t change their minds as those types usually fantasize about that.
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