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Court rebukes Bush in death penalty case

Conservatives check expansion of executive power

Jose Ernesto Medellin was sentenced to death in Texas. Jose Ernesto Medellin was sentenced to death in Texas.
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / March 26, 2008

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WASHINGTON - In a rebuke by President Bush's fellow conservatives, the Supreme Court yesterday declared that Bush does not have the power to order a state to comply with a ruling by the International Court of Justice. (Full article: 768 words)

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