Bush wants to call off a Texas execution?!!? The Texecutioner wants to honor treaty obligations and adhere to international law?!!?
There goes the rest of the base. Michelle Malkin is weeping.
The Texecutioner is obviously being blackmailed. There is no other credible explanation:
Fox News: President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.
The case of Jose Ernesto Medellin has become a confusing test of presidential power that the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out.
The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention. That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws. . . Texas argues that neither the international court nor Bush has any say in Medellin's case.
Chicago Tribune: New York lawyer Donald Francis Donovan, who will argue on behalf of Medellin at the Supreme Court, said the case is about showing the international community that the U.S. lives up to its treaty obligations. [via]
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