U.S. Law Trumps World Treaty, High Court Says

This SCOTUS decision is, IMHO a good one:

Stating that American law outweighs an international treaty, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that foreign criminals held in state prisons did not have a right to reopen their cases if their rights under the Vienna Convention had been violated.

Any time the Court gives primacy of American law over treaty law (or for that matter foreign law), it’s a good thing, and not to be taken for granted given some recent citation of foreign law in SCOTUS decisions.