I somehow missed it the other day, but this is an absolutely mind-boggling story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

According to the story, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that the U.S. judiciary needs to pay more attention to international law in making its decisions. While her disregard for the American Constitution is obvious in many of her idiotic rulings, it takes a certain boldness to make such a declaration--which would have been impeachable only 30 or 40 years ago.

Here's a nugget from the story:

The second ruling cited by O'Connor was, as she called it, "the famous or perhaps infamous case," in which the Supreme Court overturned the Texas anti-sodomy law.

In that decision, the Supreme Court majority relied partly on a series of decisions by European courts on the same issue, O'Connor said.

"I suspect," O'Connor said, "that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues."

Doing so, she added, "may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression."

Oh yes, the international good impression is all important. What good is a stupid old Constitution if France doesn't have a good impression of us?