Supreme Court· 3/25/2008

Medellin v. Texas

Citations

552 U.S. 491
128 S. Ct. 1346
170 L. Ed. 2d 190
2008 U.S. LEXIS 2912

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holding that a later-in-time self-executing treaty supersedes a federal statute and that a later-in-time federal statute supersedes a treaty
holding that the President has the “lead role” in making “sensitive foreign policy deci- sions”
holding that a later-in-time self-executing treaty supersedes a federal statute and that a later-in-time federal statute supersedes a treaty
concluding that absent self-executing status or implementing statutes, such treaties’ commitments are “not domestic law”
holding that the “interpretation of a treaty, like the interpretation of a statute, begins with its text”
recognizing that non self-executing treaties — “while they constitute international law commitments — do not by themselves function as binding federal law.”

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Judges: Roberts, Stevens, Breyer

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