BUSH SIDES WITH MEXICO....AGAIN!!!!

This story is about Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, and one of the defendants who was convicted and sentenced to death for taking part in the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls.
14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena were viciously gang-raped by 5 men and then strangled to death in 1993 in Texas.

Shockingly President Bush wants to stop the execution of this man, and on Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the death penalty conviction of this illegal alien from Mexico.

By the way, the other four convicted gang members in this case were
Medellin's 14-year-old brother at the time, who was sentenced to 40 years. Two others who received life sentences and one other gang member who was already executed last July.

SO WHY IS THE US SUPREME COURT INVOLVED???
Well Medellin's lawyers claim he was not told of his right under the Vienna Convention to contact the Mexican consulate upon arrest and so Mexico sued the United States in the International Court of Justice, which sided with Mexico.

Then, in 2005, President Bush stepped in, ordering Texas courts to grant new hearings for Medellin and other Mexicans on Death Row.
Now lets not forget that Bush over saw 150 executions while he was governor of Texas and never interfered in any of them.

So at issue for the US Supreme Court is, state's rights versus federal authority, and international ruling versus domestic law.

Many US lawmakers vigorously oppose the world court meddling in this vicious Texas rape and murder case and resent President Bush and his administration's intrusion.
The outcome of this decision will impact not only Jose Medellin but 50 other Mexican citizens currently on Death Row in the United States.

SO THE QUESTION IS..........
Can the International Court of Justice opinion or the president's memo force Texas to open its state courthouse doors in a way that they wouldn't otherwise be open?
Texas says, NO, arguing that an international court ruling does not supersede U.S. domestic law and U.S. courts.

The White House and lawyers for Medellin argue that the United States must live up to its treaty obligations to protect Americans detained or arrested overseas.
Donald Donovan, Attorney for Jose Medellin says, "When the United States deals with the world, it deals as one nation, as one voice. And when it entered into the ISJ protocol and the U.N. Charter and the Vienna Convention, it spoke as a nation. It didn't speak on the basis of individual states.

However when this treaty was ratified in the Senate, it was done so with the express condition that it would NOT usurp United States law or state law.

So I guess we'll see what happens...Will our citizen's rights once again be shit on for the sake of appeasing Mexico?

It should be noted that Jose Medellin confessed to these crimes so there is no doubt of his guilt. He even bragged about killing these two girls, and he never once complained about this counselor issue for ten years, but now wants to use this apparent loophole to save his own life.
I guess his Mexican life is more valuable than 2 young American lives were.