America’s Courts Can’t Ignore the World

They think they can, but they're only fooling themselves.

Local problems require local solutions. Our legal system is based on the Constitution. No outside entity can claim that. We may enter into agreements, but we must never surrender our sovereignty. We comply with the Geneva Conventions, for example, but rely on American manuals and documents, most notably the Law of Land Warfare to tell American soldiers HOW we comply with the Conventions. There are also DA PAMs, regulations, SOP, etc., on the details of this observance. To allow an outside court to oversee our actions, abroad or at home, would be to surrender our sovereignty and our laws, which were written to establish and protect our rights and freedoms.

Up to 20 percent of the cases may have transnational ties....dumb fisherman from Boston math: 80% do not. We can not yield our sovereignty wantonly. If you live here, you work here, or operate here, the US law is the law. Some would accuse me of being myopic, but there are a laundry list of unintended consequences that you don't know where it will end up, especially with US law's reliance of precedent to clarify gray areas of law.

The discussion of ISO, I see this aspect as very limited. International Building and Mechanical code have been the basis of US building code for years because it is very specific. ISO standards, if assimilated as a US standard under law or best practice is not the primrose path.

The Division of what is over reach and what is common sense can be murky at best.


EDIT: I find it odd that the nation whose law, civil order (read security), and justice system is the envy of the world is the one that needs to bend a knee....just a thought.