Globalizing the Court.(Insider Report)

In late July and early August, Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas met "with European judges to discuss the new European Constitution," reported the Legal Times. "And most of those five justices are also making other trips this summer to locales such as Luxembourg, Paris, and Salzburg."

"In short, another typical summer of international travel for the modern day Supreme Court," continued the report. "But the justices' wanderlust has taken on extra significance in light of the Court's newfound interest in invoking the rulings and view of foreign courts and international authorities in its own jurisprudence."

As previously noted by this magazine (see "Internationalizing the Court" in our July 28th issue, and "Globalizing the Supreme Court" in our August 17, 1998 issue), members of the Supreme Court--particularly Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and O'Connor, all of whom belong to the globalist Council on Foreign Relations--have been working to "harmonize" the court's rulings with international law. Those efforts are seen in citations from European court rulings in the recent Lawrence v. Texas decision on homosexual "rights," and the Grutter v. Bollinger decision on affirmative ...