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Good for Texas.

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imported_Shivetya

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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5202760.html"> President Bush and Texas, the state he once led, were on opposite sides of a Supreme Court dispute today over the role of international law and claims of executive power in the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder in Houston.

An international court ruled in 2004 that the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexicans on death row around the United States violated the 1963 Vienna Convention, which provides that people arrested abroad should have access to their home country's consular officials. The International Court of Justice, also known as the world court, said the Mexican prisoners should have new court hearings to determine whether the violation affected their cases.</a>


Sorry, I don't care. He is a murderer and rapist. He confessed. He was found guilty on evidence. Just because he is a foreign national does not give him special rights, let alone a get out of jail free card.

Our laws should not be supplanted by foreign laws.
 
The issue is that the US did not obey its own laws initially.

The person should have been advised of his rights to contact his embassy for legal representation.
 
There's no get out of jail free card, all he would get at best would be a new trial.

I agree with this treaty...who wants to be locked up in a turkish prison with no access to the US consulate?

I would say in general however this does bring up interesting questions regarding states rights. Generally I lean towards favoring states rights over federal, but in this case the federal government is really the only entity that can enter into a treaty with other governments.
 
So Shivetya, your thought process is that the USA should ignore treaties that it has validly adopted (thus giving them the binding effect of law in the US)? Some law and order advocate-ignore the laws you don't like. Sounds like results-driven depotism to me.

 
This is interesting how Texas is out of control.

So looks like a rare case where Bush is right on something but is obvious he has lost control of his old buddies in Texas.
 
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