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From: barry levine
Date: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Subject: re: Our Constitutional Court
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Subject: re: Our Constitutional Court
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
In 2008, the Roberts court ruled that our ratified treaties--the supreme law in the land--do not trump Texas state law. In that ruling (Medellin v. Texas), the Supreme Court came unmoored from the Supreme Law. By directly denying the plain text of the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Court moved from interpreting the Law to gutting it. Nothing the Supreme Court has done since then should surprise us; they're making it up at will.
Barry Levine
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