When Did I Vote for This?

Since we are in the middle of confirming two justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, I felt I should talk about the scariest issue for our country. That is that of Justices Ginsburg and O' Connor using foreign laws to decide cases in this country. No, it isn't enough merely to make up American laws, but now we need to let legislatures in other countries vote on American laws. In an address to the American Society of International Law, Ginsburg said we, "should not. . .abandon the effort to learn what we can from the experience and good thinking foreign sources may convey." This isn't a philosophical debating society we're talking about. This is the law of the United States, and looking for clever sophisms to justify creating law is a threat to the very nature of what our republican democracy is. Are we going to import laws from Red China? Maybe women should live under Iranian law. This is insane! Why have a U.S. Congress if the Supreme Court is going to force us to live under other nations' laws? The main reason against this is the reason we fought England to form our country- -the founding fathers didn't want us to live under laws we had no voice in creating. So unless we get to vote for politicians in Sweden, Swedish laws should have no bearing on our laws.