Monday, April 10, 2006

Justice Ginsburg and the Supreme Court of the World

"Sounds like the Big cheese admires Weeramanty," by Mark Safranski, tdaxp, 26 September 2005, http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/09/23/use-of-force.html.

"Ginsburg discusses court integrity, Congress on campus visit," by Meredith Grunke, Daily Nebraskan, 10 April 2006, http://www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2006/04/10/News/Ginsburg.Discusses.Court.Integrity.Congress.On.Campus.Visit-1803033.shtml?norewrite200604101541&sourcedomain=www.dailynebraskan.com.

Note: My source for this post is the Daily Nebraskan, the occasionally incoherent student publication of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Most of their time, such as with their publication of my dialog with Dr. Frances Kaye over ROTC, they get things right. Occasionally they don't. I am assuming that their reporting of a recent speech by a Supreme Court justice on our fair campus is accurate.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants to take over the world!

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Washington Post Criticizes Ginsburg Over Foreign Law

"Citing Foreign Law," Washington Post, 21 March 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/20/AR2006032001674.html (from NRO's Bench Memos).

I've applauded Chief Justice Roberts successful attack on so-called international law. Roberts' victory is all the more encouraging because of the division of the Supreme Court on a closely related matter: foreign law.

Foreign law, which has been attacked by the Attorney General and Justice Scalia, differs from "international law" in that it is actually law, somewhere. While there was once a real international law based on the Catholic Church, in modern times "international law" means at best the socialization of states and at worst a strange morality.

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