More states move to ban foreign law in courts

[The Straight Story]

A growing number of states are targeting what they see as a threat to their court systems: the influence of international laws.

North Carolina last month became the seventh state to pass legislation barring judges from considering foreign law in their decisions, including sharia. The bill awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.

Six other states — Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee — have already enacted similar legislation since 2010, and at least 26 have introduced such measures, according to The Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project.

One exception to this trend is Missouri. In June, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, vetoed a foreign law bill, saying it would make international adoptions more difficult.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/04/states-ban-foreign-law/2602511/

[marmar]

1. This country is drowning in stupidity.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Damnit. Which state still allows sharia law?

It is getting harder and harder to stone an adulteress.

[The Straight Story]

4. Hell, it's getting hard to just get stoned anywhere

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Ba-dum-bump.

[Marr]

3. I can see why those states are concerned-- I mean...

they're so diverse.

[Swede Atlanta]

6. First of all these laws cannot be enforced.....

You can pass a law that forbids Sharia law.....

Then someone introduces a law that would prohibit Sharia law. Let's just say that torturing of butterflies is also part of Sharia law.

The law forbidding torturing of butterflies is totally legal because the legislature has an inherent right to pass and implement the law. These "faux" laws against other forms of law are totally bogus. They can have no legal effect for want of vagueness.

The Reich Wing is out of control and they know it.

[Downwinder]

7. Attack on the Constitution.

OBL wins again. Another Bill of Rights Amendment down