You know, I think it's rather interesting... in the run-up to this latest election, there were mentions in the national media of a few interesting ballot initiatives across the country. One that barely caught anyone's notice was this amendment being considered in Oklahoma to limit the courts' ability to decide cases based on laws currently in force. The only mentions I ever saw was to ban the use of Sharia, the religious laws of Islam. But this article I see today, about a Muslim who is suing in Federal court to overturn the passage of the measure, says that it also banned the use of international laws.
Now, I understand the notion of banning the courts from considering religious laws in deciding court cases. Myself, I have to wonder how big a problem this had become in Oklahoma courts, that someone thought they needed to amend their constitution to prevent it. But adding INTERNATIONAL laws into that mix sure speaks volumes about the state of political thought out there.
That's pretty far into the heart of Farright Town thinking, I expect. And it really ought to be tossed out without much of a fight at the federal level, I should think. After all, international laws consist of legally binding treaties that the United States has signed onto. I would expect that banning their consideration by a state in its courts should be deemed unconstitutional. Seems that the Oklahoma nutbars have pushed the envelope a bit farther than they really ought to have. They used people's fears of Islam to fool them into giving them something they've wanted forever.
Of course, considering it was Oklahoma, perhaps they weren't actually in fact "fooled."