Is this important to us?

[tangled]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=15143692

Heard this story on NPR this morning. Although it is about a death penalty case, it sounds (eerily) like it deals with identical issues present in the IMEGA civil case and the betonsports criminal case. Specifically: Bush withdrew our commitments to a signed treaty, and the question of supremacy of international treaty vs. domestic statutes. The cool thing is that it is the Bush administration that is arguing that international treaty should trump domestic law -- at least up until the time that the US withdrew from the treaty.

Of course, I could be wrong about its importance to us, but still its fun banging on this typewriter.