To: FITZ
That's the key legal issue here. Federal executive branch officials have absolutely no legal recourse to stay a Texas execution. Federal courts may have the legal power under the supremacy clause to stay it but that's not a matter of settled law as far as I know.
79 posted on
02/05/2003 5:36:21 PM PST by
garbanzo
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To: garbanzo
That's the key legal issue here. Federal executive branch officials have absolutely no legal recourse to stay a Texas execution. Federal courts may have the legal power under the supremacy clause to stay it but that's not a matter of settled law as far as I know. In other words, the order should have been addressed to Texas instead of the US. Of course, I'm willing to bet that Texas never signed the Convention on Consular Relations.
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