Solid Decision

nationalreviewonline ^ | March 27, 2008 | Editors

[nosofar]

In one of the most important international-law decisions in its history, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restored the Constitution’s prudent balance between politics and law in the quintessentially political arena of foreign affairs. Doing so, Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion concurrently provided individual justice for murder victims, vindication for the rights of states to democratic self-determination, and a searing reminder of why presidential elections — which can chart the high Court’s course for a generation — are crucially important.

[nosofar]

I couldn't find a topic on Law or the courts, or even foreign affairs. (I also couldn't find where to search for a previous post of this article.)

[Raymann]

The Opinion is here http://www.precydent.com/OriginalVersion/06-984.pdf?id=149557

[stevem]

Justice Stephen Breyer proposed an alternative scheme, which called for courts to determine, ad hoc and unconstrained by treaty language, which treaties were judicially enforceable and which weren’t.

Does anyone in the world, including Stephen Breyer, think Stephen Breyer is anything other than and idiot?