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Ginsburg Shares Views on Influence of Foreign Law on Her Court, and Vice Versa

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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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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday at Ohio State University, where she talked freely about her work, past and present.

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Times Topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg“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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Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--

Other countries' interpretation of the United States Constitution should have absolutely NO bearing on supreme court decisions. Ginsberg should be thrown out for even considering the notion. This is how our sovereignty gets eroded: idiots like ginsberg buying into the idea that other countries should have a say in how our system is run, and adjudicate based on that idea. despicable.


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