More evidence of the corruption of a democratic society by having its powers usurped by institutional oligarchy control, in this case as incarnated by a governing body known as The Supreme Court.

The international treaty, drafted in 1963, seeks to protect foreigners, including Americans traveling or living abroad. It requires that officials notify the home-country consulate when a foreigner is arrested or held for “pending trial.”

Despite its clear terms, police and prosecutors in the United States have failed to notify foreign criminal suspects that they have a right to the help of their nation’s consulate.

Two years ago, the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, took up an appeal from the governments of Mexico and Germany. The court, based in The Hague, ruled that the treaty gave individuals a right to reopen their cases if they did not get the proper notification.

But the Supreme Court said Wednesday that it was not bound to follow that ruling.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. acknowledged that treaties ratified by the Senate were part of American law. Nonetheless, under the U.S. Constitution, the power to interpret the law and treaties “is vested in one Supreme Court,” he said.

They don’t reserve the right to interpret the law. They abrogate to themselves the right to make the law. The whole history of the United States is repleat with countless incidents of this handful of un-elected, unjuried judges, the majority of them eminating directly from corporate law firms directly to federal benches, simply making law, often from rationales right out of thin air.

We The People should have full sovereign rights to make the laws to guide and configure the kind of society we want to live in. Until we confront this tool of elite minority control constantly dictating to us what our laws our and who controls them, we will never have a truly democratic society.

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