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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Courts - "Leave it to Texas to put a stop to executive overreaching"
The ILB's favorite Supreme Court writer is Dahlia Lithwick, who writes for Slate and appears on NPR's Day to Day. Here is a paragraph from a column posted yesterday:
Medellin v. Texas could be a law-school exam unto itself. It touches on the separation of powers and the supremacy clause, international treaties and state criminal codes, federalism and the reach of the president's diplomatic authority, all wrapped up in fundamental questions about the scope of judicial review. But really, the best part of Medellin is that if you are a casual spectator attempting to pick out the "good guys," here's your choice: the state of Texas and its relentless quest to execute its people without regard to moral, international, or legal norms, versus the Bush administration and its claim to broad new executive authority to boss around state judges. It's like having to choose between being clawed to ribbons by a grizzly bear or gnawed to death by a killer whale.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 11, 2007 09:22 AM
Posted to Courts in general