Comments on: Bad Idea: Using foreign laws here

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:56:13 +0000

I suspect her legal reasoning is wrong in this case; it usually is. I was speaking to the bigger point that when you lower standards to fill quotas, you get judges like her.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:21:45 +0000

It is amazing to me that you will actually defend a judge using another country’s laws, or even their values. What arrogance and misplaced confidence.

By: Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:53 +0000

Love those sound bites! What a shame that the bloggers here must not have read Liptak’s piece to put US legal reference to foreign laws and judicial opinions in context.

It is true that any law outside the jurisdiction of the case is legally merely a fact. But judicial reasoning and universal values are something that every judge needs to recognize wherever they might be found.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:08:30 +0000

She is one of Bubba’s biggest mistakes. We have all payed the price for his quest to use quotas to fill open seats on the courts.