How eager to disregard your own country's tradition and law do you have to be to look elsewhere in the world to justify a legal opinion?That question has haunted me since it became fairly common for some liberal members of the Supreme Court to point to what passes for law in other parts of the world in order to establish precedent here. Chief among the judges who ascribe to this dubious legal theory is Ruth Ginsburg, perhaps the most liberal member of the court since Douglas.And to make matters worse, she is insensitive to the idea that such legal formulations might be injurious to our own system.William Jacobsen at the blog Legal Insurrection quotes and comments on an interview with Ginsburg:The controversy surrounding citing foreign law and foreign judicial decisions errupted because of two Supreme Court decisions citing foreign law in deciding domestic issues relating to prosecuting sodomy and execution of juveniles. Most recently the issue is in the news because of Obama's...(Read Full Post)