Justice Breyer: 'Not all our decisions are right'

WorldNetDaily ^ | August 11, 2005 | Joe Kovacs

[Past Your Eyes]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says not all rulings from America's highest court are correct, admitting judges don't have "some great special insight," and he defends the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States.

Breyer made the remarks during a panel discussion this week in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Bar Association.

[Past Your Eyes]

During the conference, Breyer also defended the increasing practice of the U.S. Supreme Court examining laws and rulings in foreign nations to help come to conclusions here ----

What a maroon. O'Connor, too.

[Brilliant]

He's right about that. Unfortunately, he has a distorted view of which ones are wrong.

[Thebaddog]

I saw a C-span show where Scalia and Breyer discussed issues and took questions from the audience. Scalia took him apart and was clearly enjoying twisting him into a pretzel with his own logic. The crowd was also trying to trap Scalia and he would have none of that either.

Breyer is a pussy, IMHO.

[Past Your Eyes]

Notice that was conveniently left out of the discussion. Maybe he should check with Scalia to find out which ones need to be corrected.

[newgeezer]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says not all rulings from America's highest court are correct

Ooh, lemme guess. Would the incorrect rulings be the ones where he's in the minority?

[conservativecorner]

No shit Sherlock Breyer, and HELL NO to foreign laws. I don't live in a country named "Foreign". I live in the United States of America, and our laws are derived from our Constitution, or at least that should be what is occurring. Said to say that currently it is not.

[lewislynn]

he defends the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States.

Globalists love that kind of talk....

[Jaysun]

I saw a C-span show where Scalia and Breyer discussed issues and took questions from the audience. Scalia took him apart and was clearly enjoying twisting him into a pretzel with his own logic. The crowd was also trying to trap Scalia and he would have none of that either.
Breyer is a pussy, IMHO.

I saw them on C-span too, maybe it was the same program. I agree with your opinion of Breyer. He looks like a homosexual pedophile to me. With his delicate little limp hands and sleepy looking eyes he has "pervert" written all over him.

[cotton1706]

I saw that on Cspan too. Breyer was telling some teary-eyed tale of walking up a hill and seeing some wall that used to be a jail and is now the wall of the courtroom and he was really moved. I was thinking "and this has to do with American Constitutional law how???"

It's all emotions with these people. Result-oriented decisions.

[Personal Responsibility]

I can't believe that they spent half that article defending looking to foreign courts for our laws. Its insanity!

[hang 'em]

[kaotic133]

Well a lot of foreign nations have built their judiciaries to mimic the American one. But they were established later, so they may take into account more contemporary social phenomenon.

It kind of reminds me of animation. America popularizes it, Japan "tweaks" it, and now American animators are studying Japanese animation just like the Japanese originally studied ours. Its still a product of the evolution of American animation, even if some modifications were first made in other countries.

I also agree that Breyer would probably be studying the wrong countries.

[socialismisinsidious]

someone needs to remind these people what their job description is---the interpretation of U.S. laws and the U.S. Constitution as applied to decisions of U.S. courts

[Txsleuth]

Justice Ginsberg has also advocated using international and foreign law in making opinions for Americans!!!

THEY all need to go that have that opinion, IMHO!

[McGavin999]

If he's so found of european justice, perhaps he should resign his seat and apply for one in europe. In case he didn't notice it, he's a member of the UNITED STATES Supreme Court, not the International Court.

[Deo et Patria]

Ya think?

[IamConservative]

I saw that show as well. I was overwhelmigly impressed with Judge Scalia. I had never seen him in that type of setting. His insight and intelligence were boundless.

It created a feeling of embarassment in me to think he had to sit before a bunch of ass bags like Schumer for confirmation.

[bigsigh]

I think O'Conner and Kennedy subscribe to this idea also.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In the words of leading Democratic thinker Nancy Pelosi, "It is a decision of the Supreme Court -- so this is almost as if God has spoken."

[lewislynn]

Their job/obligation is to interpret OUR laws not Scottish law...and it's only relationship to animation is how phoney it's all become....