The LAT is excited this morning over a decision yesterday by the U. S. Supreme Court that the LAT says "rebuffs" President Bush. Anything negative towards Bush excites the LAT. Actually, the case is less a rebuff to Bush than to "internationalist" who believe foreign law ought to be enforced by U.S. courts. The Wall Street Journal explains that in an editorial today.
Reading between the lines and engaging in a bit of speculation, it seems most likely that the Bush administration took the position it did to placate Mexico and the International Court of Justice, which ordered the action the Bush administration took. To have taken the opposite position would have exposed the U.S. to charges it thumbed its nose at U.S. treaty obligations.
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