Cosmopolitan Justice

In The New Yorker, a profile of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Note his time at the London School of Economics:

Before he graduated from college, he spent several months studying at the London School of Economics, where he was struck by the range of student opinion and the vehemence of political debate. “At the political union, you had to sit in the room according to your place on the ideological spectrum, and, to give you an idea of what it was like, the Communists—the Communists!—were in the middle,” Kennedy recalled recently. “It was a different world, and I loved it.”

What a world that must have been!

The New Yorker broaches Justice Kennedy's penchant for citing International Law in domestic decisions. Then it says SCOTUS has done that since Justice Marshall's tenure. Of course, they support this controversial assertion by citing cases in which Americans tangled with other sovereign Nations, thus they're not entirely domestic cases. But what's a little sophistry in a cause? It's the only Reasonable thing to do.