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2966 Dead <d...@gone.com> wrote in news:jor8nu$vll$2@dont-email.me:

> On Mon, 14 May 2012 09:04:59 -0500, David Hartung wrote:
> 
>> On 05/14/2012 08:45 AM, 2966 Dead wrote:
>>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 08:39:09 -0500, David Hartung wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/13/2012 12:33 PM, 2966 Dead wrote:
>>>>> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/11405-kansas-
> bans-
>>>>> islamic-law
>>>>>
>>>>> [Zeppnote: so when are they going to ban Jewish and Christian
>>>>> law?] 
>>>>>
>>>>> Kansas Bans Islamic Law
>>>>>
>>>>> By Kevin Murphy, Reuters
>>>>>
>>>>> 13 May 12
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation intended to prevent the
>>>>> state courts or agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws
>>>>> in making decisions, a measure critics have blasted as an
>>>>> embarrassment to the state.
>>>>
>>>> While this law might seem at first glance to be foolish, stop and
>>>> consider that within the past few months, we have had a US Supreme
>>>> Court Justice defend the use of foreign law in US courts. This may
>>>> be nothing more than an attempt by the Kansas legislature to ensure
>>>> that Kansas judges base their rulings only on US law.
>>>
>>> Got a cite for that claim, David?
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/us/12ginsburg.html [...]
>> In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended
>> the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture
>> should not be used even when it might yield important information and
>> reflected on her role as the Supreme Court’s only female justice.
>> The occasion was a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio
>> State University honoring her 15 years on the court.
>> [...]
> 
> You think a one-line opinion on a speech by a Justice amounts to an 
> actual cite?
> 
> And that she said something like that doesn't mean that foreign law is
> applicable in American courts, or that she was suggesting such. 
> Here's what else is reported:
> 
> She [Ginsburg] said the controversy was a misunderstanding between
> being bound by foreign law and merely citing it as a wise influence.
> She had this to say:
> 
>     “I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from
>     Congress and 
> even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law … Why
> shouldn’t we look to the wisdom of a judge from abroad with at least
> as much ease as we would read a law review article written by a
> professor?† 
> 


     Are not the Ten Commandments - which conservatives are 
always proclaiming as a source of law and morality - "foreign"?