Sunday, April 12, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court: Ginsburg Shares Views on Influence of Foreign Law on Her Court, and Vice Versa

.... “I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law,” Justice Ginsburg said in her comments on Friday.

The court’s more conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — oppose the citation of foreign law in constitutional cases. ....

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