Chief Justice Rehnquist dies

[scaeagles]

A little bit of meat I took from a transcript -

My own Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona asked Roberts about the increasing use of foreign law by judges to interpret the Constitution.

Roberts: ".....there are a couple of things that cause concern on my part about the use of foreign law as precedent. Looking at foreign law for support is like looking out over a crowd and picking out your friends. You can find them. They're there.It allows the judge to incorporate his or her own personal preferences, cloak them with the authority of precedent. And I think that's a misuse of precedent, not a correct use of precedent."

Good question, outstanding answer.