Referring to the governor, he said: "What she said today was that there doesn't exist in the statutes right now any more authority than simply the supervision of the city.
The slow rate of progress means that hereditary peers - although whittled down to 92 - will still be in place at the election, despite Labour's manifesto commitment to end "by statute" the right of "hereditary peers to sit and vote".
"The government wishes to inform the world that we understand, appreciate and respect the Rome Statute, the rights enshrined by the United Nations and the ICC process," says the president's spokesperson, Alfred Mutua.
The court's analysis, in a majority opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, was based on the conclusion that the statute guarantees rights not only to children, but also to their parents.
It had been clear for months that the increased militancy of the Negro organizations and the agitation to codify and establish by statute those "rights" that the courts hold are already part of the law (all the current legislation is really aimed at the elimination of civil "wrongs") would breed resistance in the North as well as in the South.
Particular episodes in institutional practice, say the enactment of a new statute, change rights and obligations by changing the content of the practice and therefore its moral effect (Greenberg 2007, 2011a).
Next week marks the 49th anniversary of the signing of the landmark civil rights statute, the monumental Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
There are more than 1,100 places in the federal statutes where rights or benefits are based on a person's marital status, according to one analysis by advocates for same-sex marriage.
Community statute creates the right for firms to set up shop wherever they like, but also a right for workers to take collective action - action that can often prevent the undercutting of wages.
The statute removed judges' right to withhold deportation if it would cause extreme hardship.
