[Talisker]

Why did you post this? The article itself says the Supreme Court struck down this bogus crap last June.

[FredZarguna]

It's been tried several times in the past, and attempts have been struck down each time. In Missouri v. Holland noted Socialist Oliver Wendell Homes wrote an opinion for the Court that allowed Congress to make laws in support of treaties that infringed on the exclusive powers of the States. That was not really seen as anything more than an extension of the Supremacy Clause, though it was probably a dangerous precedent.

The most definitive decision was in 1957, Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957), the Court ruled most resoundingly that the Constitution supersedes ratified treaties. In the words of the majority: "this Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty."

[WayneS]

While this is an old article, and Bond vs. US has been ‘settled’ in Bond’s favor back in June, our cowardly Supreme Court did not strike down Holder’s main argument. They deftly avoided the issue of limits of treaties by simply ruling that Bond’s actions did not violate the treaty.