Issue #4 04-05-00 @ 4:43 AM(cst) |
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Judge Bork decries ''Legal Globalism'Steven Leahy |
Judge Robert Bork told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute that a move toward International laws ''may be capable of changing our Constitution.'' As an example, Judge Bork pointed to a recent opinion by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer. The opinion concerned the length of time that an inmate may be held on death row before execution. Justice Bryer suggested that the Court should be guided, in part, by the decisions by the Privy Council of Jamaica, the Supreme Courts of India and the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. ''I'm not sure why the Constitution of the United States, which has its own history and understood meaning, should be affected in any way by what foreign courts have to say about their constitutions,'' Bork said. ''International law about the use of armed force should not inhibit America's actions in its own interests,'' Bork said. ''We should not, through globalization, surrender our interests to nations of far different cultures and views of politics, not to mention to nations that are overtly hostile to the United States.'' Bork also pointed out the hypocrisy in a system that detains and punishes some leaders of countries on ''humanitarian grounds'' while leaving other, more murderous leaders (e.g. China), untouched. |
Quote of the Day |
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ==>Albert Einstein |
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