Supreme Court decides Medellin
The Supreme Court has just decided Medellin v. Texas. Quick scorecard: Texas won, as did the Bush Administration specifically, the “foreign entanglements” set, and, by most of its definitions, federalism. On the losing side: the fifty-one foreign inmates who claimed personal rights under the VCCR, presidential power generally, and (at least at first blush) US participation in IGOs with the power to bind.
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