Why on earth would he interfere in this?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071007/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_mexican_national

WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

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Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the 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.

Answer 1

Bush wants suddenly to make foreign law above ours because his interests (Cheney) are having an easier time manipulating it, is all I can think. This would add weight to his idea that his unilateral agreements with other countries w/o congressional oversight would have more weight over local law. It is exceedingly bad precedent for America. It is even against his own interests, long term, but global market forces are apparently panicking. This specific issue is that Mexico doesn't like the death penalty and wants to show it is protecting 'its' peole. So why doesn't Mexico take them back and provide for them?



I have faith in the Supreme Court...tentatively.



Putting other law over our Constitution (and due process which we ALSO need to enforce) erodes their jurisdiction, as well.



On the other hand, if we didn't allow them their rights, we have our own law to address that, as the Supreme Court found in Guantanamo. We may see a decision that says 'their rights were violated, give them a new trial (or a new trial won't work) and have it turn on our own law, never reaching the international Court of Justice issue.

Answer 2

I'm not only going to guess that outside of Mexico asking him to, and Bush lining his pockets once again. But that this case and the other 50 convicted will have their cases over-turned and then released back out onto the the streets where they can once again terrorize society in the same form and fashion as they did before they were locked up. And the other States will have the same risks of having to release such criminals.



Unbelievable! Just simply unbelievable...

Answer 3

IF he was guilty of the crime, then he did an evil cruel thing, but he should have been given the right to request help from the Mexican government. How would u like to go to France, and then the police take you into custody and say you did something horrendous, and then not get offered help from your country? People are innocent until proven guilty and there are laws in place to protect us and foreigners. Rape and Murder are not acceptable, but we cannot judge if he did do the crime, we dont have the facts. The jury is provided all available facts and evidence. LET HIM TALK TO HIS CONSULATE thats the bottom line. Im sure he is not the first Mexican in Texas to be accused of a crime...the police should have known what to do.

Answer 4

This of course is the same president who feels that he can do anything he wants...he has ignored the "will" of the people and will continue to do so..In my lifetime I have never seen a President that was so self-serving and pitiful as this one.

Answer 5

For the same reason the Feds put 2 border patrol agents in jail for 10 years for INJURING a drug dealer, not kill mind you, injuring him.



Who chose the Federal prosecutors that pushed for that? Who has the power to pardon them and hasn't? Scooter is walking around a free man for A treasonous act. While two men who risked their lives to protect us rot in prison.



Now Bush wants leniency for child molesters and other scum because they're Mexican? I wish that man figured out which country he swore to serve.

Answer 6

Without know the reasoning behind his decision and the story didn't say I can't make a judgment

Who knows if the story is even true

I don't trust Yahoo to tell the truth about anything maybe it is just a plant story

Answer 7

maybe the guys a family member. could be his illegitimate child. bush should sit next to him when he is put to death. the damn traitor



th the one up above, bush can be stopped, he can be relieved of his duty as president if he is found to not be mentally fit. and it looks like he is not really mentally fit to make the right decisions for this country.

Answer 8

I think he is being ask to by the Mexican government because they don't have corporal punishment in Mexico.

Answer 9

Can you justify anything that Bush has done lately ?

Answer 10

Because Mexico has asked him to.

wouldn't it be nice if he would do what the American people asked of him?

Answer 11

Someone with money probably called in a favor.

Answer 12

Wow, talk about going against your base. I don't understand why he does anything....

Answer 13

the illegals might have worked for an important republican. good help is hard to find.

Answer 14

Because "Big Dick" told him too.....

Answer 15

coz he wants to....



and no one could question that...