Judge Sotomayor’s Misreliance on Foreign and International Law

Ed Whelan writes at National Review: “I’ve just watched the 22-minute video of an April 2009 speech that Judge Sotomayor delivered to the ACLU of Puerto Rico on the topic of American judges’ use of foreign and international law. It’s a terribly muddled speech in which Sotomayor explicitly embraces Justice Ginsburg’s misguided position and asserts that Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas misunderstand the issue even as she misconceives the basis of their objections.”