Supreme Court - APGinsburg: Int'l Law Shaped Court Rulings

Associated Press ^ | August 2, 2003 | By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

[bart99]

Maybe this isn't 'breaking' (if not please move to the appropriate category, but it broke on a Drudge link to Yahoo this morning. Did I miss this? Was this posted a few days ago?

I cannot believe the SCOTUS is applying treaties with other countries - not just the US Constituation - and that their "perspective on constitutional law should encompass the world"!

I wonder if she and Sandra took into account the laws in third world countries, Africa, Russia, China, etc in formulating their latest opinions - or just have "learned from others"of thier choosing.

[Joe Boucher]

Hey Ruth baby, this ain't international, this is America. You elitist one world bitch.

[ppaul]

This is horrifying.
Can the demise of our free republic be afar off?
May God have mercy on our nation!

[bart99]

Only my second "post" here........ but this really stunned me! Am I the only one?

[raisincane]

Stunned? This is deplorable. Globlization from within our own highest court. Please let these black robed zealots retire.

[ppaul]

Youths oppress my people,
women rule over them.
O my people, your guides lead you astray;
they turn you from the path.

Isaiah 3:12

[bets]

This post also talks about this happening:
Push for Recent Diversity Laws Coming from.....International Courts!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957192/posts

[ppaul]

[bart99]

I guess this supports the articles lately about the Dems bypassing our legilature to get "laws" passed. *sigh* Wonder if the SCOTUS can dictate to the legilature what laws are "appropriate" for our country, given the 'world's perspective'. Geez...... I'm upset.

[swilhelm73]

Well, combine Ginsberg's statement with the one here;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958852/posts

"U.S. District Judge Louis Oberdorfer drove the point home. None of it matters unless people take action, he told them. "If you do it right, you people here will become law clerks and the law clerks will become judges and the assistant secretaries and you'll run the world.""

These leftist judges really think it is their right to rule us.

[Keith in Iowa]

Why do Liberal Lawyers need another group? Isn't the ACLU enough for them? Or are these LibLawyers more lib & whacked than the commies of the ACLU?

[JoeA]

Time to Impeach her.

[bets]

The US is a member of:

International Criminal Court
International Commission of Jurists
International Chamber of Commerce which has an International Court of Arbitration
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (initiatives can be LAWS)- heard of Agenda21?
International World Customs (w/their own tribunal)
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The US is a member of all of them and more. And we get many of our laws and programs from them.

[bart99]

Time to compile a list of "these type of statements" from that session and send them to every republican House and Senate member............ and have them stop all the Dems' filibustering over Bush's nominees!!

International Treaties and world perspective define our constitution??? Give me a break!!

[bets]

Correction - we are not members of the International Criminal Court as yet. I meant to say - the Internatioal Court of Justice.

[bart99]

Just curious...... but is every member of the UN a member of all those "International" organizations??

If so, I imagine the USA would lose any case in question brought before one of those oranizations..

[AmericanVictory]

Bump!

[bets]

Not always, the countries do vary depending on the organization. But some REQUIRE that UN members participate - for instance, the Law of the Sea applies to all UN members.

And one funny thing - the U.S. was the country behind enforcing a new global law that requires all seafarer workers to carry a biometric identity card - holds their digital picture and fingerprint.

But you make a good point. If only 2 out of the 60 commissioners of the Int'l Commission of Jurists are from the U.S., then where are the other 58 from? Here's the composition of the ICJ:

The International Court of Justice

President
Shi Jiuyong (China)

Vice-President
Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar)

Judges

Gilbert Guillaume (France)

Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone)

Vladlen S. Vereshchetin (Russian Federation)

Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom)

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (Venezuela)

Pieter H. Kooijmans (Netherlands)

Francisco Rezek (Brazil)

Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Jordan)

Thomas Buergenthal (United States of America)

Nabil Elaraby (Egypt)

Hisashi Owada (Japan)

Bruno Simma (Germany)

Peter Tomka (Slovakia)

Registrar

Mr. Philippe Couvreur (Belgium)

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For crying out loud, the President is from China! A jury of your peers?!!!?

[bart99]

Thanks. Interessting to see Venezula on that list of Jurists, considering what's going on there. Also Interesting to see Egypt and Jordan but not Saudi Arabia. Guess those death penalty and amputation laws they have don't go over to well in the international community

[laconic]

Why, oh why, did the Republicans give a pass to "MIss International" and not fight to keep her 100 percent leftist views off the court?