Supreme Court Ruling Bows to Foreign Opinion
The ruling yesterday by the Supreme Court to eliminate the Death Penality for juveniles, was a ruling against States Rights but also a ruling influenced by foriegn powers.
This is very upsetting, because the job of the Supreme Court is to rule on the law in context of the Constitution, NOT what foreigners want or deem as law. America's sovereignty is being whittled away to allow it to be controlled by outside Gov'ts (can you say UN), and we will be enslaved to these outside Gov'ts if we don't watch out. It is very disheartening to know that Americans on the Supreme Court are giving America away to the UN and it's ilk.
Mr Minority
WASHINGTON – In its stunning 5-4 ruling banning states from executing murderers who committed their crimes before they turned 18, the U.S. Supreme Court majority openly cited a United Nations convention, an international treaty and the laws of the United Kingdom in arriving at its sweeping decision.
The decision overturns a 1989 high court ruling, throws out the death sentences of 72 murderers who committed their crimes as juveniles and bars states from seeking to execute others in the future. Nineteen states had allowed death sentences for killers who committed their crimes when they were under 18.
Four of the justices – John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – had gone on record in 2002 opposing the death penalty for juveniles, calling it "shameful." Those four, joined by Kennedy, formed yesterday's decision.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas joined Scalia in seeking to uphold the executions.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor filed a separate dissent, arguing that a blanket rule against juvenile executions was misguided. Case-by-case determinations of a young offenders' maturity is the better approach, she wrote.
In a scathing dissent, Scalia found it curious that teh court would overrule the will of the American people in 19 states, but lean heavily on the opinions of foreigners.
"Though the views of our own citizens are essentially irrelevant to the Court's decision today, the views of other countries and the so-called international community take center stage," he wrote.
The majority begins its ruling by noting that "Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, entered into force Sept. 2, 1990, which every country in the world has ratified save for the United States and Somalia, contains an express prohibition on capital punishment for crimes committed by juveniles under 18."
This is very upsetting, because the job of the Supreme Court is to rule on the law in context of the Constitution, NOT what foreigners want or deem as law. America's sovereignty is being whittled away to allow it to be controlled by outside Gov'ts (can you say UN), and we will be enslaved to these outside Gov'ts if we don't watch out. It is very disheartening to know that Americans on the Supreme Court are giving America away to the UN and it's ilk.
Mr Minority
