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A sweeping generalization that is not relevant. The U.S. is under no obligation to honor treaties with other parties who do not honor them themselves. If you don't deal honestly and abide by your own word of honor, then most Americans don't give a rat's ass about keeping up their ends of these deals, it's that simple.
Of course it is; if we hold our end and the other party or parties don't, it is they who broke the agreements, and neither us nor any other party is obligated to keep upholding the agreement. It's just ridiculous to do so, and defies common sense.
Like we care if some crooks charge us with 'hypocrisy'. Most adults know who the major hypocrites around the world are, and it isn't the U.S., which is why most countries still expect the U.S. to arbitrate disputes around the globe; they certainly don't rely on Europe, or Taiwan, to get anything done. Nobody ever asks the Russians, either.
Actually you're just promoting a double standard and engaging in the usual America Bashing tripe, hiding behind silly semantics and pseudo-intellectual 'legalisms' in the hope nobody notices, but that's okay, we know jealousy and inferiority complexes when we see them.
Our dirty laundry is pretty much out in the open, unlike most of the world, where the 'press' is government controlled and censored, so it's easy for other countries, and our own media, to sit around tossing spitballs at the U.S while ignoring far worse from nearly everybody else. We're used to it.
do you see a difference between someone in another nation legally versus an illegal who has lived here most of his life?
1. Article VI does not compel the Texas court to review, reconsider or otherwise halt the execution.
2. If you don't like what happened in Texas, you can go through the legal process of moving jurisdiction of these cases to the Federal Court and hope they handle things differently.
Article VI Clause 2 said:This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Its over, no longer a current event, and therefore people will go back to not giving a **** about this in 6, 5, 4,...
I care because the US is supposed to be an example. The US is an example by following up on the solemn agreements it makes with other states in the international system. That was not done in this case.
I think they should go ahead a commute his sentence now.
I care because the US is supposed to be an example. The US is an example by following up on the solemn agreements it makes with other states in the international system. That was not done in this case.
'This case has happened at LEAST 51 times int he past. It isnt an issue because 1-the individuals received a fair trial, adequate legal representation, due process and 2-this isnt a case of some poor Juan Valdez type wandering the streets and not knowing what the legal system is or what crime he committed. Dood came here as an INFANT...lived here for a few decades, raped and murdered a 16 year old, and then almost 2 decades later we are suddenly worried that somehow things should have been different because he was born in mejico.
Pin your outrage and hat to a relevant case and you likely will have more credibility. This is nothing more than a protest against the death penalty and a chance for mejico to express a little outrage. God knows they have enough routinely ****ed up goings on happeneing every day in their little cesspool of a country that they really could stand to not bother with a bunch of rapists and murderers that were 'nationals' by virtue of being born and leaving there over 3 decades ago.
The SCOTUS has ruled. COnsidering the case...it was the right ruling. And why is it that suddenly everyone is all happy and quiet in the past when the death sentence is commuted to life?
do you see a difference between someone in another nation legally versus an illegal who has lived here most of his life?
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