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Sandy O'Connor touts global law
AP ^ | October 28, 2004 | Not known

Posted on 10/29/2004 10:21:46 PM PDT by w6ai5q37b

Published October 28, 2004 ASSOCIATED PRESS


Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday extolled the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, saying judges would be negligent if they disregarded its importance in a post-September 11 world of heightened tensions.
In a 15-minute speech at Georgetown law school, Justice O'Connor made no mention of the health of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80, who was hospitalized this week for thyroid cancer and is expected to return to work Monday.
Justice O'Connor said the Supreme Court is increasingly taking cases that demand a better understanding of foreign legal systems. A recent example was last term's terror cases involving the U.S. detention of foreign-born detainees at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she said.
"International law is no longer a specialty. ... It is vital if judges are to faithfully discharge their duties," Justice O'Connor told attendees at a ceremony dedicating Georgetown's new international law center.
"Since September 11, 2001, we're reminded some nations don't have the rule of law or [know] that it's the key to liberty," she said. Later this term, the Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of executing juvenile killers. The case has attracted wide interest overseas, with many foreign nations filing briefs pointing to international human rights norms as a justification for outlawing the practice.
Justice O'Connor, who is expected to be a pivotal vote, didn't mention the case, but said recognizing international law could foster more civilized societies in the United States and abroad.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: constitution; globalism; internationallaw; justiceoconnor; newworldorder; oconnor; sandraoconnor; scotus; transjudicialism; worldgovernment
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"International law is no longer a specialty. ... It is vital if judges are to faithfully discharge their duties,"

Translation: I refuse to use the US Constitution as a standard in making decisions, rather I will make decsisions based on foreign and international laws.

Anyone else think this broad should be impeached?
1 posted on 10/29/2004 10:21:46 PM PDT by w6ai5q37b
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To: w6ai5q37b

IMPEACH SANDY


2 posted on 10/29/2004 10:23:53 PM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: w6ai5q37b

We have a government riddled with traitors. How can our nation survive?


3 posted on 10/29/2004 10:25:25 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (They should rename it to World Hugh instead of World Series!!!!)
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To: w6ai5q37b

Ronald Reagan's worst mistake as President. By far.


4 posted on 10/29/2004 10:27:02 PM PDT by 1L
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To: w6ai5q37b

Just another reason NOT to have an America-doubting "internationalist" as President, nominating Supreme Court Justices even more likely to be of like (non-American, internationalist) mind.


5 posted on 10/29/2004 10:27:43 PM PDT by FreeKeys (A TRAITOR for President? NEVER! Besides, nutcase Scary Kerry wants to give nuclear fuel to Iran!)
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To: w6ai5q37b

Whenever I see this crap about international law, I ask myself, who makes up these laws? What int'l body, what legislature? Does it include the 30 muslim dictatorships in the UN who don't allow voting or women to show their faces?


6 posted on 10/29/2004 10:32:26 PM PDT by spyone
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To: w6ai5q37b

She's using her oath as toilet paper.


7 posted on 10/29/2004 10:33:34 PM PDT by SiliconValleyGuy
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8 posted on 10/29/2004 10:33:35 PM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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I'm with you, her talk scared me.


9 posted on 10/29/2004 10:33:55 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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Impeach this traitorous BI*CH...it's time to march on DC with pitchforks if we have to.


10 posted on 10/29/2004 10:34:48 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a veil for MASS MURDERS. Save your time...)
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No doubt! She has just openly violated her oath.


11 posted on 10/29/2004 10:35:09 PM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: w6ai5q37b

Hey Sandddraaa... I think you need to look over your job description again you fool.


12 posted on 10/29/2004 10:35:52 PM PDT by arly
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"Since September 11, 2001, we're reminded some nations don't have the rule of law or [know] that it's the key to liberty," she said.

I guess she's jockeying for an appointment to the World Court or sumfn

13 posted on 10/29/2004 10:36:08 PM PDT by The Red Zone (The reason they're trying to starve her isn't because she's dying, but because she isn't. [Supercat])
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If we had a Congress with some spine they'd impeach her for lack of "good behavior" the first time she used foreign precedent.

The problem with our activist Judiciary is due to a lack of Congressmen who will do their job.


14 posted on 10/29/2004 10:36:50 PM PDT by Noachian (A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
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She's been saying this for years; all she's doing now is giving it a post-9/11 paint job.

Not that it makes her extremist global community views any less of a threat to our nation. She wants Kerry's 'global test' to apply to our judicial system, and that's simply unacceptable.
15 posted on 10/29/2004 10:37:03 PM PDT by Antonello
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O'Connor has been deteriorating for several years now. I wouldn't be surprised if staff has to follow her around in case she soils herself. Damn shame - - she was once a competent and thoughtful jurist who took the US Constitution seriously.


16 posted on 10/29/2004 10:38:34 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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O'Connor has been deteriorating for several years now ...

Has anyone checked her for Alzheimer's?

17 posted on 10/29/2004 10:39:44 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: clee1
No doubt! She has just openly violated her oath

Because she knows nothing will happen to her. This country is going to fall apart if we don't get back to having some standards

18 posted on 10/29/2004 10:40:25 PM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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That is the scariest thing I have ever heard.

This is just another reason why we so desparately need more "strict constructionists" on the Supreme Court.


19 posted on 10/29/2004 10:41:25 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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at a ceremony dedicating Georgetown's new international law center.

We're just way too old fashioned...They're way ahead of us on this...They're even building new buildings to teach this stuff to unsuspecting students who are growing up to be 'international lawyers'...

20 posted on 10/29/2004 10:44:09 PM PDT by Iscool (Why is Kerry the Dem candidate??? Because Castro wasn't interested...)
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