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Ginsburg: OK to look to foreign law for good ideas
Associated Press ^ | July 30, 2010

Posted on 07/30/2010 1:48:19 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says judges can look to foreign law for good ideas without diminishing their ability to apply U.S. law faithfully.

Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers Friday that American judges can learn from their foreign counterparts when seeking solutions to "trying questions."

Ginsburg said high court nominee Elena Kagan got it right when she told senators at her confirmation hearing that she was in favor of good ideas "wherever you can get them."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: ginsburg; ruthbaderginsburg
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To: DManA
"...THIS is the kind of baggage that’s going to doom Gingrich’s chance to be President..."

Ahh, I think that you might have missed something here...

21 posted on 07/30/2010 2:22:09 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: reaganaut1

Such a statement ought to be grounds for impeachment. As the Declaration of Independence said about George III, “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws...”


22 posted on 07/30/2010 2:24:09 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: reaganaut1

OMG!


23 posted on 07/30/2010 2:25:51 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: reaganaut1
Heeeeerrrrrssssseeeee Ginsburg!!!!....
24 posted on 07/30/2010 2:33:54 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: reaganaut1

TREASON!


25 posted on 07/30/2010 2:34:54 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: reaganaut1

As a woman, I have to wholeheartedly say, “No more women on the Supreme Court.”

For some reason, guys just can’t pick sane women to judge at the highest level.


26 posted on 07/30/2010 2:35:10 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Titus-Maximus
How about we try Saudi law for a while and we can start by throwing homosexuals off buildings!

That would be difficult as San Francisco would run out of buildings. At least we can require Justice Ginzburg to wear a burka all the time.


27 posted on 07/30/2010 3:02:57 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

The prospect of American Courts deferring to foreign laws and customs in rendering decisions which impact our life is so chilling, so alien and so evil that any measures whatsoever to frustrate this are acceptable.

And I think Sam Adams, George Washington and Thomas Paine would agree.


28 posted on 07/31/2010 11:35:57 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam)
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To: ZULU
The prospect of American Courts deferring to foreign laws and customs in rendering decisions which impact our life is so chilling, so alien and so evil that any measures whatsoever to frustrate this are acceptable. And I think Sam Adams, George Washington and Thomas Paine would agree.

Actually, in those early days we often looked to British court because our courts hadn't built up much precedent. And we still do it. The recent McDonald majority decision cited Blackstone, a British judge who died around the time of our revolution, on the issue of the right to self defense.

29 posted on 07/31/2010 2:41:23 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Bitsy

NO you unqualified twit!

Oh, does that make you a qualified twit?


30 posted on 08/02/2010 6:16:28 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: antiRepublicrat

Somehow, I don’t believe Bader-Ginsberg was thinking of Blackstone - or even Magna Carta.


31 posted on 08/02/2010 5:40:12 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam)
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