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  • Justice Ginsburg Backs Value of Foreign Law

    04/02/2005 3:58:14 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 156 replies · 2,921+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 2, 2005 | ANNE E. KORNBLUT
    WASHINGTON, April 1 - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court embraced the practice of consulting foreign legal decisions on Friday, rejecting the argument from conservatives that United States law should not take international thinking into account. After a strongly worded dissent in a juvenile death penalty case from Justice Antonin Scalia last month that accused the court of putting too much faith in international opinion, Justice Ginsberg said the United States system should, if anything, consider international law more often. "Judges in the United States are free to consult all manner of commentary," she said in a speech...