This picture creeps me out.
Posted on 07/06/2011 10:05:12 AM PDT by tutstar
Edited on 07/06/2011 10:26:36 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The Obama administration is taking the unusual step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas from executing a Mexican citizen who was convicted and sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.
The administration is asking the court to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal, 38, for as long as six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would directly affect Leal's case.
(Excerpt) Read more at kwtx.com ...
Does it make a difference?
A raping murder should be excuted regardless of the citizenship status of his victim - or his.
That’s IT!!
Good theory. I think this bunch and Mexico knew about the illegal gun running. That way Mexico could sue United States and Obama could use that towards gun sales here. Mexico gets money and this “bunch” could get stricter gun laws here. Any takers on that theory?
My point ZULU must have been lost on you.
If he lived here, he doesn't go whining to another country when he does the crime.
This picture creeps me out.
Interesting little note: as per some old Sup. Ct. precedent, treaties that are not self-executing do not bind the states until Congress enacts legislation to put the treaty into effect. See, e.g., Whitney v. Robertson, 124 U.S. 190, 194 (1888).
In this case, notwithstanding that the treaty in question (which I do not know the name of off the top of my head) apparently does provide that the nationals of signatories are to be provided with consular assistance, the treaty itself appears - from the reports on the need to enact legislation to review alleged violations of the treaty - to not be self-executing and thus not binding on the states until and unless Congress enacts legislation making it so.
In other words, the State of Texas appears to be at liberty to ignore the provisions of this treaty until Congress has enacted legislation saying otherwise.
That means, in essence, that Obuttocks is trying to bootstrap the binding effect of the treaty by, in essence, claiming that it ought to be binding on Texas because, if you just give Congress enough time, Congress will do what it needs to do to make the treaty binding on Texas.
snippet from UK Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/05/obama-stop-texas-mexican-execution
Obama tries to stop execution in Texas of Mexican killer
US president warns Texan authorities that execution would put America in breach of international legal obligations
President Barack Obama is attempting to block the execution in Texas on Thursday of a Mexican man because it would breach an international convention and do "irreparable harm" to US interests.
Well it does feel that way sometimes. We still have freedom to move about though and do most of our daily activities without interference.
Me too.
News reports say Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru are conspiring to collude with The Anti-Defamation League, The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several other civil and immigrant rights groups to infringe on US sovereignty to make laws as we see fit. The co-conspirators filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Georgia's law and are now asking a judge to halt the measure pending the outcome of their case.
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Nothing good has come from this plague of lawbreakers violating our borders. Illegals are a national security threat. They are conspiring to tear down democracy. Their home countries--and the US govt--- are helping them.
WAITING TO GET THEIR ORDERS FROM MEXICO
Reconquista shock troops at Phoenix Capital protest, May 29, 2010.
If he’s been in the USA since he was 2, doesn’t the amnesty bill in 1986 make him an American citizen?
You want to be an anchor baby to get US citizens’ rights? Then suffer the consequence of US justice system.
The victim was also Hispanic.
At least one of the judges who has already turned this case down is Hispanic.
More than one member of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is also Hispanic.
Also, Gov. Perry can't give this guy anything but a one-time 30-day reprieve; he can't commute his sentence even if he wants to, unless he gets a written recommendation from a majority of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. I think they have already turned this one down.
This is not to say that I think Gov. Perry would be so inclined anyway, particularly not at the request of this President.
We have to work for it, but we WILL save America from this Marxist menace.
Why is it that most leftist women are uglier than homemade sin?
Infuriating is an understatement.
Wonder what a psychiatrist would say about the Prez?
Medellin claimed that he should have received a new trial because he was a Mexican national and should have been allowed to contact the Mexican consulate for legal assistance. However, he had lived in the US since he was six years old and had gone to elementary, middle and high school here.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case in spring of 2005. In the meantime, then-US President George Bush instructed, via a "determination," that Texas courts comply with the 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and hold a hearing for Medellin.
Texas refused to comply, saying that the federal government and the international ruling have no bearing on state criminal justice statutes. The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Medellin's case again, and sided with Texas against the President, saying that President Bush did not have the authority to order such a review.
Medellin was executed August 5, 2008. In his final statement, Medellin apologized for his part in the crime: "I'm sorry that my actions brought you pain. I hope this brings the closure to what you seek."
O.K.
Sorry.
hmmm I hadn’t thought about any connection. I wonder if the perp is related to anyone important in Mexico?
Excellent point.
But this isn’t about the law this is pure demagoguery.
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