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(Thank you Drudge) This is the United States of America, but you would not know it reading this New York Times article where Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the high points of referencing foreign law in Supreme Court decisions. This is proof judges are want-a-be legislators picking and choosing their case law justifications from wherever and whatever suits them. A jurist with this philosophy on the Supreme Court bench is an absolute outrage. Read on:

Ginsburg Shares Views on Influence of Foreign Law on Her Court, and Vice Versa
By ADAM LIPTAK Published: April 11, 2009

(New York Times) COLUMBUS, Ohio — In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court’s only female justice. The occasion was a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University honoring her 15 years on the court.

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