Supreme Court Bitch Slaps Obama

Kicked in the Balls

• Carol Bond tried to poison her husband’s adulterous lover.  The Obama administration was prosecuting her under the global treaty against the use of chemical weapons.
• The Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0 against King Obama using international law to prosecute Americans for local crimes. 

(Poor Richard's News)  -  An update to this story we wrote about months ago.  When a Pennsylvania woman attempted to poison her husband, the Obama administration decided to take the case out of the hands of the state police and prosecute her in a Federal trial citing international treaties against chemical weapons.

The Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s attempt to use international treaty to prosecute an American Citizen.

from Reason:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today against the Obama administration in a major case testing the reach of federal power. 

At issue in Bond v. United States was the conviction of Carol Anne Bond, a Pennsylvania woman sentenced to six years in federal prison under the Chemical Weapons Implementation Act after she smeared two toxic substances on the door knob and car door of a woman who had been carrying on an affair with Bond’s husband.  

According to Bond, the federal government exceeded its enumerated powers by making a federal crime out of her purely local offense. Today, the Supreme Court ruled in Bond’s favor. 

The Obama administration’s “boundless” interpretation of the chemical weapons law, declared the opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts, “would transform the statute from one whose core concerns are acts of war, assassination, and terrorism into a massive federal anti-poisoning regime that reaches the simplest of assaults.” 

Joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, Roberts found that the federal law simply had no application to “an amateur attempt by a jilted wife to injure her husband’s lover, which ended up causing only a minor thumb burn readily treated by rinsing with water.” The power to prosecute such acts rests entirely in the hands of the states, the Court concluded. “There is no reason to think the sovereign nations that ratified the [Chemical Weapons] Convention were interested in anything like Bond’s common law assault.”

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This was an important case because it represented a test run for using international treaty as a means to regulate behavior not normally within the Federal government’s jurisdiction.

Apparently, there are some thing that go too far, even for the liberal members of the court.

Thanks to Poor Richards News.