WASHINGTON- To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the states plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal murder of two teenage girls.

Bush who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimatley will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the international Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other mexican-born prisoners, would violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it make similar decisions affecting the State criminal Laws.

"The President does not agree with the ICJ's interpretation of the Vienna Convention," the administration said in arguments filed with the court. This time, though, the US agreed to abide by the international courts decision, because ignoring it would harm American interests abroad, the government said.

Texas argues that niether the International Court nor George Bush has a say in Medellin's case. Medellin was born in Mexico but spent much of his childhood in the United States. He was 18 on June 1993, when he and other members of a black and white gang in Houston encountered two teenage girls on a railroad trestle.

The girls were gang raped and strangled. Their bodies were found four days later. Medillin was arrested a few days after that. He was told he had a right to remain silent and have a lawyer present, but the police did not tell him that he could request assistance from the mexican consulate.

Medillin gave a written confession. He was convicted of muder in the course of a sexual assault, a capital offence in Texas. The judge sentenced him to death in 1994. Medillin never raised the lack of assistance from Mexico diplomats during his trail or his sentencing. When he did claim his rights had been violated, Texas and the federal courts turned him down because he had never objected at his trial. Mexico later sued the United States in the international court of justice in the Hague on behalf of Medillin and 50 other mexicans on Death Row in the US.

This is just another example of the Bush Admistration allowing Mexico to interfere with the justice system in the United States, What would Bush do if his daughters had been brutally raped and murdered, would he still feel the same. So why hasn't he released Ramos and Compean and why are they still charging our Border Patrol officers with murder when all they are trying to do is protect themselves.

This does make one wonder as to who's side president Bush is really on! Since when does international law trumpt the Constitution, these men were given a fair trial, thats more than they would have gotten in Mexico.