[ClintonBeGone]

That is really a misleading headline. She never said what the headline implies she said.

I agree. I think the article is in the context of when international laws/treaties are actually being decided by the court. The quote in the last part of the article also contributes to the misleading nature of the headline. Maybe that's all the headline writer read before doing what they did?

[NetValue]

According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath:

"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.''

[Redbob]

THe headline is not at all misleading: O'Connor and others on the court have talked previously about "international law" and referred to European court decisions as if they were precedents.
The author of this piece assumes you know that.

[cyncooper]

I think the article is in the context of when international laws/treaties are actually being decided by the court.

Here is what the above article says:

The first cited case was decided in 2002 when the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional to execute the mentally retarded, she said. In arriving at that decision, Justice O'Connor said, the high court noted that the world community overwhelmingly disapproved of the practice.

Also influential was a court brief filed by American diplomats who discussed the difficulties confronted in their foreign missions due to U.S. death-penalty practices, she said. The second ruling cited by Justice O'Connor was the striking down of the Texas antisodomy law, relying partly on a series of decisions by European courts on the same issue.

What treaties are you referring to?

[Sloth]

I think the article is in the context of when international laws/treaties are actually being decided by the court.

Uh, no...

"I suspect," Justice O'Connor said, "that over time we will rely increasingly — or take notice, at least — increasingly on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues."

Anyway, the example they gave was execution of retarded felons. What treaty governs that?