Updates on Int'l Court of Justice and John "Hairy as Michael" Bolton

Just to keep you up to speed on some goings on:

1) The Supreme Court is waffling on what to do regarding foreigners on Death Row that never had a chance to contact their respective embassies for help.
[Our original post on the ICJ here] [Update from the AP here and from the NY Times here]

2) 59 former diplomats are asking the Senate to reject the appointment of John Bolton as US Ambassador to the UN. The group included ex-diplomats that served under Democrat and Republican administrations.

Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the State Department's senior arms control official. They said he had an "exceptional record" of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national security through arms control.

But the former diplomats also chided Bolton for his "insistence that the U.N. is valuable only when it directly serves the United States."

[Our original post here] [Update here]