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Rule of (International) Law: Can foreign courts tell American ones how to do their job?
The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^
| February 26, 2005
| Editorial
Posted on 02/25/2005 9:09:57 PM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:09:58 PM PST
by
quidnunc
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: quidnunc
I guess my vote on that is "HELL NO!"
The best way I've heard it put was by Ann Coulter, quoting the John Birch Society: "Liberals care more about global governance than about the United States," from her book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).
Pretty much says it all about liberals, from Kennedy on down to the likes of Leahy and Biden.
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:18:50 PM PST
by
Marauder
(I drink to make other people more interesting.)
To: Marauder
Only if they invade and set up a government for us.
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:20:10 PM PST
by
Gondring
(They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
To: quidnunc
Anybody can click on my screen name to access the Opinion Journal article.
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:21:34 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: quidnunc
Is there any mechanism in the constitution for a remedy of a corrupt SCOTUS? Or actually they have an unlimited power?
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:22:10 PM PST
by
paudio
(Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
To: quidnunc
Our Supremes have been talking about internationalization of our Constitution for years, and not one word is heard from our Congress about stopping this travesty.
Our Congress has repeatedly let the courts legislate from the bench, and it is only a matter of time before the courts "interpret" the Constitution as irrelevant in this brave new world of European Socialist law.
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:28:41 PM PST
by
Noachian
(We're all one judge away from tyranny.)
To: dcuddeback
Only if we let them. soooooo right.
will we tolerate legal endorsement of gay unions? will we let them murder Terry Schiavo by starvation? Will we turn our backs and let Roe v. Wade be the law of the land?
Will we sit around and piss and moan and let it happen?
I think I'm beginning to understand those dreams where nobody hears you screaming...and where you're running but getting nowhere...
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:31:50 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
("remember, from ashes you came, to ashes you will return.")
To: quidnunc
Foreign entities have no concept of OUR Constitution. Perhaps if they were to study the history behind our great Republic, they could come to understand the background and therefore, the true meaning of FREEDOM. But, alas, they will not for they know the consequences thereof!
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:38:43 PM PST
by
lawdude
(Leftists see what they believe. Conservatives believe what they see.)
To: quidnunc
They can tell the US courts anything they please. And the US courts can ignore them if they please. And if they don't, you and I can ignore said US courts, as not "US".
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posted on
02/25/2005 9:44:38 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: quidnunc
Oh give it time and there won't be an America !
To: Marauder
I guess my vote on that is "HELL NO!"
My immediate reaction to the title alone. I believe SCJ Breyer, no that's the ice cream, is it Beyer, feels this is fine. I watched him on C-Span with SCJ Scalia, who was fabulous, and thought he was a real jerk.
To: paudio
Is there any mechanism in the constitution for a remedy of a corrupt SCOTUS? Or actually they have an unlimited power? They gave themselves unlimited power and will never let it go. Even Renquist doesn't want to let it go.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:03:52 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
To: dcuddeback
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:16:51 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: quidnunc
Can foreign courts tell American ones how to do their job?
Sure they can say whatever thay want. And I can say whatever I what in return, and right now I have two (count em 2) words for them. Care to guess what they are?
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:18:41 PM PST
by
Valin
(DARE to be average!)
To: paudio
Congress is not doing it's job regarding the run away judicial branch because some are too scared, and some are for sale, and some are for it.
To: All
The idea of, say, a Chinese or Zimbabwean court making decisions that affect us, or even contributing to those decisions, is just a little disturbing.
To: quidnunc
Did we sign a treaty granting the ICJ jurisdiction in such matters? If we did then we might have to abide by their rules -- which is why we should be very careful of which treaties we sign.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:42:52 AM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: quidnunc
By the way, how are they doing with the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes? After all that's the reason we went to war there. If he's not found guilty of any war crimes then Clinton lied and people died. And where's that timetable for withdrawal from Bosnia? Weren't we promised that the troops would be out before June 30th, 1998? How's that going? Didn't Gen Shalikashvili testify before Congress that the deployment to Bosnia would not be more than 12 months? And that was in 1995!
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:54:30 AM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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