When I first read this, I thought it was a joke.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts that the U.S. Supreme Court will increasingly base its decisions on international law rather than the U.S. Constitution, according to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. By doing so, the court will make a good impression among people from other countries, she said.

"The impressions we create in this world are important and they can leave their mark," Justice O'Connor said [...]

"I suspect," Justice 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."

I still can hardly believe that a United States Supreme Court Justice could even think such a thing. How could she take such a cavalier attitude about the U.S. Constitution, especially given the position she's in. This is a far stretch from the woman, who back on September 25, 1981, had this to say:

"I, Sandra Day O'Connor, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

O'Connor took this oath on a Bible, and it is her sworn duty to uphold the Constitution of the United States no matter what her personal political position is. If she cannot bring herself to comply with her sworn oath, she should have no choice but to resign.