The Supreme Court case involving Monsanto’s parent company, Bayer, and its weedkiller, Roundup, may not seem it, but it is a question of the globalization of American law at the expense of American sovereignty.

The case at hand is about whether lawsuits against Monsanto should be allowed to continue. The lawsuits in question are over Roundup failing to warn that Roundup contains glyphosate, an alleged carcinogen and the most common weedkiller in the country. Roughly 90% of corn acreage in the U.S. is genetically modified to resist weedkillers, the vast majority of which is “Roundup Ready” corn designed to resist glyphosate.