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Anthony Kennedy: Using foreign law is inevitable with an interconnected world

It really began with the Holocaust, when international law started to concern itself with how nations treated their own citizens. Country A is concerned with how Country B treats its own citizens. So you had the beginnings of things like the European Court of Human Rights. They became the new kids on the block, but no one really knew what they did. Gradually, their work started to become known around the world. Then you started to have formal exchanges of judges.
Source: Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, "Swing Shift" Sep 12, 2005

Antonin Scalia: Foreign laws ought to be rejected out of hand

The basic premise of the Court's argument--that American law should comport to the laws of the rest of the world--ought to be rejected out of hand. What these foreign sources 'affirm,' is the Justices' own notion of how the world ought to be, and their diktat that it shall be so henceforth in America. We don't have the same moral and legal framework as the rest of the world, and never have.
Source: Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, "Swing Shift" Sep 12, 2005

Stephen Breyer: Supreme Court can learn from foreign laws

Though foreign laws could never be binding on an American court, they were still worth examining. Foreign judges have problems that often, more and more, are similar to our own. They're dealing with texts that more and more protect basic human rights. If here I have a human being called a judge in a different country dealing with a similar problem, why don't I read what he says, if it's similar enough? Maybe I'll learn something.
Source: Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, "Swing Shift" Sep 12, 2005

Cornel West: Pro-Palestinians are accused of being anti-Semitic or naive

If you are fundamentally identified with the Palestinian cause, not in a way of putting Jews down but in a way of hating occupations, in a way of loathing domination there is a certain kind of consensus that it's a taboo issue, and somehow to raise the issue means you're either anti-Semitic or don't understand the complexities of the Middle East, or all the different rationalizations that lose sight of the humanity of Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Source: The New Yorker magazine on 2024 Presidential hopefuls Mar 9, 2022

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