Every now and then, news breaks in the Obama
administration that is so stereotypical, it is actually depressing. You
might want to sit down for this.
Attorney General Eric Holder, made infamous by
Operation Fast and Furious, is currently arguing before the Supreme
Court that United Nations treaties trump the United States Constitution.
That’s right. The sitting Attorney General, charged
with upholding and defending the Constitution, is arguing before the
highest court that international law is in fact the law of the land.
The case in question, Bond v. United States, is
actually pretty ridiculous. The defendant is charged with using a toxic
substance to harass a friend who was having an affair with her husband.
Under the law, this case would normally be handled at the State-level.
But Federal prosecutors instead charged Bond with violating the Chemical
Weapons Convention. This would be like taking a perpetrator of a
domestic hate crime and instead charging him or her with genocide.
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