Vice President Joseph Biden recently spoke to the mid-year meeting of the State Conference of Chief Justices. He said Americans often take for granted our court system.
“Far more than any other country on the planet, the United States of America upholds basic liberties,” he said, adding this is even true when compared with some of our European allies, noting recent culture clashes in Europe related to immigration. “In my view, the nations that are still in transition are going to come to learn the basic truth we have known for some time,” he said. That until there is a rule of law, “where a business can be sure that their intellectual property will be protected and citizens will be free to speak their minds,” he said, those nations will never fully realize their potential. “Russia is a case in point,” Biden said, noting that more than 20 years after the end of the Soviet Union, that nation is struggling to become a prosperous democracy.
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