{"id":5343,"date":"2011-07-08T02:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T09:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2011-07-08T02:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T09:02:37","slug":"scrotus-and-rick-perry-hamstring-state-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/scrotus-and-rick-perry-hamstring-state-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"SCROTUS And Rick Perry Hamstring State Dept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our nation\u2019s highest court is split into two distinct bodies.  SCOTUS has four Justices: Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.  They deserve our highest praise.  On the other hand, SCROTUS has five Injustices: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy.  They are activist ideologues with Constitutional VD.  If you are ever arrested in a foreign nation, and that nation denies your right to assistance from your government, you can thank the blood-lust of Rick Perry and SCROTUS.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Texas executed a Mexican citizen Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after he and the White House pleaded in vain for a Supreme Court stay, saying he was denied help from his home country that could have helped him avoid the death penalty.<\/p>\n

In his last minutes, Humberto Leal repeatedly said he was sorry and accepted responsibility\u2026<\/p>\n

…Leal was just a toddler when he and his family moved to the U.S. from Monterrey, Mexico, but his citizenship became a key element of his attorneys’ efforts to win a stay. They said police never told him following his arrest that he could seek legal assistance from the Mexican government under an international treaty.<\/p>\n

Mexico, the Obama administration and others had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay Leal’s execution so Congress could consider a law that would require court reviews in cases where condemned foreign nationals did not receive help from their consulates. They said the case could affect not only foreigners in the U.S. but Americans detained in other countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The court rejected the request 5-4<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow covered the story in detail with Bob Herbert.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Now the Republican pro-death reaction has been that the guy admitted his guilt, so what difference does it make?  This is not about Leal.  This is about a bloodthirsty Republican governor killing a maan in violation of our own law, and SCROTUS rubber-stamping it.  If America refuses to honor our own treaties as the Constitution requires, what basis do we have to demand other countries do so?  They have have hamstrung our State Department.<\/font><\/p>\n

I may have beefs with Obama, but in 2013 either a Democrat or a Republican will occupy the White House.  If it\u2019s a Republican, SCROTUS will bet bigger.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our nation\u2019s highest court is split into two distinct bodies.  SCOTUS has four Justices: Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.  They deserve our highest praise.  On the other hand, SCROTUS has five Injustices: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy.  They are activist ideologues with Constitutional VD.  If you are ever arrested in a foreign nation, and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}