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Justice Breyer on a Wide Reading of the Law

By Steve Hall

Jesse Holland's AP post today is, "Supreme Court Notebook: Looking abroad for tips."The debate over whether the Supreme Court should look to foreign law when interpreting the Constitution is ultimately irrelevant because justices can read whatever they want when they are formulating their opinions, Justice Stephen Breyer said Wednesday.Breyer said there are those who complain about the high court potentially looking at what other countries do when they are resolving cases involving U.S. law."I say that's a wonderful political debate. It's good, but it's pretty irrelevant because when I do read things, I can read what I want," Breyer said.If judges in another country with similar laws have a similar case, a judge should be able to consider how they solved it, Breyer said in remarks at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).