Exhibit A: Justice O'Connor - US Supreme Court Must Reflect International Decisions
American courts need to pay more attention to international legal decisions to help create a more favorable impression abroad, said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at an awards dinner in Atlanta.
"The impressions we create in this world are important, and they can leave their mark," O'Connor said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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O'Connor told the audience, according to the Atlanta paper, the U.S. judicial system generally gives a favorable impression worldwide, "but when it comes to the impression created by the treatment of foreign and international law and the United States court, the jury is still out."
Matt's Chat
Madame Justice, please allow me to tell you exactly what your job is. Your job, as a member of the highest court of the United States of America, is to render judgement, based on merit and argument, on the law of the land. Let me define "the land." "The land" refers to the United States of America. Therefore, your job is NOT to render judgement on any other nation or body of nations laws, but rather you and your collegues are to use AMERICAN LAW.Here is Section 2 of Article III of the AMERICAN Constitution, which the Supreme Court is to defend and uphold.
Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Show me, Madame Supreme Court Justice, just where in the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA you see that the Supreme Court is to utilize anything but American law? Madame, please feel free to email me the answer when you find it, but I won't be holding my breath.
Mark's Remarks
Matt, Ms. O'Connor must be getting senile...I would suggest replacing her, but God knows when the Dems would allow another candidate to be confirmed.....Madame Justice, we are a nation of freedom and American Law...do the British observe our law? When Iranians, Syrians, and others fully observe the full internationl law and such, or when international law proves effective, I will listen to this argument...right now, and it has been proven time and again, we have the most fair and equitable justice system in the world, why should we follow other laws, when they have no respect for our rules (China, Mexico, others)?You are not a justice of some international mishmash court...You are a justice of the Supreme Court of THE UNITED STATES.....
