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States Prevail in Medellin v. Texas

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Lyle Denniston reports, "States win over President on criminal law issue," in Medellin v. Texas.  Here is Lyle's initial report:The Supreme Court, in a sweeping rejection of claims of power in the presidency, ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the President does not have the authority to order states to relax their criminal procedures to obey a ruling of the World Court.  The decision came in the case of Medellin v. Texas (06-984).  Neither a World Court requiring U.S. states to provide new review of criminal cases involving foreign nationals, nor a memo by President Bush seeking to enforce the World Court ruling, preempts state law restrictions on challenges to convictions, the Court said in a ruling written by Chief Justice John G...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).