Focus (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 26, 2007
Treaty Triage
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A forthcoming decision from the Supreme Court will settle the question of whether the president can mandate the enforcement of international law by individual states.
By Charles S. Doskow
Jose Ernesto Medellin sits in a Texas jail, having been convicted of murder. He is not going anywhere. But his case, on appeal, recently made its second trip to the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., after stopovers in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, and a transatlantic visit to the International Court of Justice (the World Court) in The Hague, Netherlands.<...
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