Foreign Exchange:Should the Supreme Court Care What Other Countries Think?
Sunday, April 08, 2007
- Organization: Slate
- Link: http://www.slate.com
Tim Wu argues that critics of the Supreme Court's recent citation of international and foriegn law "are mixing up the difference between listening to foreign ideas and obeying foreign commands" noting that Justice Scalia "is like the prohibitionist who confuses drinking with alcoholism. His narrowly correct point stigmatizes a range of reasonable, indeed salutary, judicial behavior."
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