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Justice Breyer Sees Value in a Global View of Law
The New York Slimes ^ | 09/12/2015 | ADAM LIPTAK

Posted on 09/12/2015 8:15:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s modest study in his home here is nothing like his grand chambers at the Supreme Court. Cluttered and lived in, it bears signs of a restless intellect and a doting grandfather. The bookshelves are stuffed with volumes of law and literature, and a large dollhouse sits on the floor.

Justice Breyer, 77, often comes in last when people are asked to name members of his court, but he has had a remarkable year.

In the Supreme Court term that ended in June, he surprised almost everyone by voting with the majority more often than any other justice. On the term’s last day, he issued a major dissent questioning the constitutionality of the death penalty. And he has a book coming out, one that will reignite the politically combustible topic of the role foreign law should play in American judicial decisions. He will discuss it on Monday on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: breyer; globalism; globallaw; scotus
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Ain't the New World Order grand?
1 posted on 09/12/2015 8:15:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What part of self-government don’t you like, Justice Breyer?


2 posted on 09/12/2015 8:17:34 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He will be impeached soon.


3 posted on 09/12/2015 8:17:42 PM PDT by WENDLE (How did Hillary get Top Secret docs out of the Dedicated Secure Network facility?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then Justice Breyer needs to step down.

There is no justification whatsoever for harmonizing our court decisions with those of other nations.

WTH does he think we our forefathers fled those other nations for?

It’s called self-determination dumbass! (Breyer)


4 posted on 09/12/2015 8:19:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Im betting he spends more time with the Dollhouse than he does with the Law Books


5 posted on 09/12/2015 8:20:06 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder what’s wrong with the American view. It’s sounds like he advocating for hacking off the hands of thieves, beheading infidels and hanging homosexuals from cranes in the city square.


6 posted on 09/12/2015 8:20:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals keep looking for ways to be offended. I keep looking for ways to offend them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The concept of Westphalian sovereignty was established in 1648 at the conclusion of the Thirty Years War. Nation States have sovereignty within their established borders. This is central to the whole concept of international law.

Since 1945, there has been a massive effort to replace this with One World Government, and that effort seems to be picking up speed.

7 posted on 09/12/2015 8:22:46 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just like that trash Ginsberg


8 posted on 09/12/2015 8:23:35 PM PDT by Ray76 (Mitch McConnell - leader of the Death To America Caucus)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Other than a few skirmishes to establish who is top dog, we are there [one world government], My FRiend.


9 posted on 09/12/2015 8:27:39 PM PDT by sport
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sorry Breyer, you’re on the wrong court. Resign and go for a seat on the world court and don’t let the door going out of the U.S. hit you in your brains.


10 posted on 09/12/2015 8:27:58 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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He obviously considers himself a “citizen of the world”. Somehow, the citizens of the world always come running to the United States for safety when there is a threat; remember the mobs cheering the firefighters on the way to 9/11? I bet they never noticed or acknowledged a uniformed person before.


11 posted on 09/12/2015 8:29:11 PM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Put this guy on a shelf somewhere.


12 posted on 09/12/2015 8:29:13 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He obviously considers himself a “citizen of the world”. Somehow, the citizens of the world always come running to the United States for safety when there is a threat; remember the mobs cheering the firefighters on the way to 9/11? I bet they never noticed or acknowledged a uniformed person before.


13 posted on 09/12/2015 8:29:35 PM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He can see all the value he wants but he has NO RIGHT to apply it.


14 posted on 09/12/2015 8:30:27 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He obviously considers himself a “citizen of the world”. Somehow, the citizens of the world always come running to the United States for safety when there is a threat; remember the mobs cheering the firefighters on the way to 9/11? I bet they never noticed or acknowledged a uniformed person before.


15 posted on 09/12/2015 8:30:50 PM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He obviously considers himself a “citizen of the world”. Somehow, the citizens of the world always come running to the United States for safety when there is a threat; remember the mobs cheering the firefighters on the way to 9/11? I bet they never noticed or acknowledged a uniformed person before.


16 posted on 09/12/2015 8:30:52 PM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, he’s a “Masshole” ... Well, his fascination with sodomy all makes sense now - he’s just another cornhole humping queer from the “Gay” State - Fagachusetts.


17 posted on 09/12/2015 8:31:30 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

so he’ll use sharia law then


18 posted on 09/12/2015 8:36:25 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Either that, or passing down ruling authority via bloodline.

-PJ

19 posted on 09/12/2015 8:39:27 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

SCOTUS.


20 posted on 09/12/2015 8:45:45 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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