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DETROIT
— A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts - one
that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law - has
reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims.
The Michigan bill, which mirrors “American Laws for American Courts”
legislation introduced in more than 20 other states, was introduced in
June by state Rep. Dave Agema, Grandville Republican. He has argued
that it has nothing to do with Islam or the faith’s Koran-based Shariah
law, but is designed to stop anyone who seeks to invoke a foreign law
in state courts. [Muslims
see ‘foreign law’ bill as attack on Shariah]
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Top
Left, Justices
Ahmadinejad, Putin, King Ubangi, Mugabe
Bottom Left - Justices Sarkozy,
Jong Il, Chief Justice Omar, Scalia, Barbara Mikulski's girlfriend
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Very
recently a majority of the present justices, and maybe all, have
written and joined opinions that rely on foreign materials, including
opinions written by Justice O'Connor, Justice Kennedy, and Chief
Justice Rehnquist. And one journalist was quoted as saying, there is
now a new attentiveness by the Supreme Court to legal developments in
the rest of the world, but not so fast.
[...]
Strong voices, including most notably Justice Scalia's, have
protested to what some suggest an expanding trend in U.S.
constitutional law. It is important to recognize that it is not only
conservatives who have taken this position. A prominent liberal law
professor has recently written that any effort to import international
norms into American constitutional law is largely a waste of time. [Transcript of
Discussion Between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and
Stephen Breyer -- AU Washington College of Law, Jan. 13 (1995)]
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I cannot believe that more than the 22% or so of
the population who want the US Constitution abolished, would agree that
our courts ought observe foreign court precedent. Anyone pushing
this idea ought to be, and I hope is, on someone's "bad" list for being
dealt with after this Obama
regime terror is over.
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