A Matter of Sovereignty Continued

Fire of Liberty

Last October I pointed out in my post A Matter of Sovereignty how the White House was playing with our nation's sovereignty when it issued a memo to the Attorney General ordering that the courts in Texas had to abide by the ICJ and the demands of Mexico, and issue a re-trail for Jose Medellin. Well thankfully President Bush's wishes were denied when the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Medellin v. Texas that such an order violated the separation of powers and principles of federalism laid out in the Constitution. So here's a hearty huzzah to the Supreme Court.