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Dickie Hemric
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Jury Nullification
Um, for the most part, we absolutely do.
Come on, seriously? It doesn't exist like many people think because it has a completely different structure than domestic laws and doesn't have nearly as effective enforcement. That being said, only a small minority of scholars would argue that it doesn't exist. Even some of the most extreme scholars would say that treaty law is definitely law.
Kind of like the Rule against Perpetuity?
Almost all of them.
It's easy to abide by the rules that we made. Just wait until China starts calling the shots.
I know nothing about international law, so I am not going to get involved in this one, but as someone who deals with the Rule Against Perpetuities on almost a daily basis and spent a good part of 8 hours researching the 1954 version of the RAP in Georgia, it totally exists (and totally sucks).
How?
As I said on the other thread, OBL was a federally indicted murder suspect. Lurking on the third floor of a miltary-style compound while your lackeys spray automatic fire from the first two floors constitutes "resisting arrest," especially given the violent rhetoric to never be taken alive.
It's easy to abide by the rules that we made. Just wait until China starts calling the shots.
I know nothing about international law, so I am not going to get involved in this one, but as someone who deals with the Rule Against Perpetuities on almost a daily basis and spent a good part of 8 hours researching the 1954 version of the RAP in Georgia, it totally exists (and totally sucks).
How?
[Edited to remove some flawed analysis.]
Here's Holder's take. I'm skeptical: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13370919
Re: the agreement between Musharraf and GWB, it doesn't resolve the legality of the operation. Under Pakistani law, can the president sign away the country's territorial sovereignty? I doubt it. The U.S. President certainly can't under U.S. law. Would we be calling it "legal" if Obama had made a secret deal with Pakistan that said they could use their military to kill wanted criminals on our territory without telling us first? Even if such an agreement were legal under domestic law, it might be illegal under international law.