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Initial News Coverage of Medellin

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The opinion, in Adobe .pdf format, is here. AP writer Mark Sherman files, "Court Backs Texas in Dispute With Bush."President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered a Texas court to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and the death penalty, the court sided with Texas 6-3.And:The president may not "establish binding rules of decision that pre-empt contrary state law," Roberts said. Neither does the treaty, by itself, require individual states to take action, he said. Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter dissented. The international court judgment should be enforced, Breyer wrote...continue to full post

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