Bond v. United States: Can the President Increase Congress’s Legislative Power by Entering into a Treaty?
On November 5, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bond v. United States, and as we go to press, the case is still pending before the Court. This is a terrific case, first because it has such lurid facts. Mrs. Bond discovered that her husband had impregnated her best friend, so she did was anyone would do. She acquired some chemicals and spread them on the friend’s doorknob, car door, and mailbox.
This conduct is, of course, all sorts of state crime. But Mrs. Bond was not prosecuted for these state crimes. Instead, she was prosecuted by an ambitious Assistant United States Attorney for violated the federal Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act.
