ARTICLE: Obama nominee touches a nerve in conservatives, By Joseph Williams, Boston Globe, April 21, 2009

I know this bit really offends the constitutional purists, but I like a guy (both for State and possibly the Supreme Court) who says American law should be willing to take influences from other nations' law and international law. To me, that's an essential harmonization issue that cannot always be slated unidirectionally.

Of course, even the purists would have to admit that we got our original laws largely from other nations, with big influences being Britain and the Dutch, John Locke, etc., so arguing for a firewall now strikes me as ahistoric.

FWIW, I made this argument in Great Powers too.

(Thanks: j ryan)