While President Joe Biden recently said that “no one is above the law”, in response to guilty verdicts in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, his administration is seemingly committed to shielding Israel from accountability at any cost - even if that means tearing apart the rules-based international order.
Biden has so far not only refused to support the ongoing case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but he has actively rejected the preliminary findings of the World Court determining that Israel is “plausibly” committing genocide.
On 10 June, an appellate court in San Francisco will have the opportunity to demonstrate that indeed no one, including the president of the United States, is above the law.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, representing plaintiffs Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCI-P), Al-Haq, Palestinians in Gaza and Palestinian Americans, will ask a panel of judges to reconsider the district court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to stop the US government from transferring more weapons to Israel during an ongoing genocide.
Eh, someone is going to be the president and everyone with the right to participate in the election bears some responsibility for the outcome of the election. If we were living in Russia with literal sham elections you can’t do shit… in America we can’t do much but we can do something.
Given the choice you own the responsibility of how much worse whoever is elected than the other.
And what is that? Study after study has shown our votes mean nothing and politicians only listen to the donor class.
In the long term we can vote for better local and state politicians so we can get generally better people in to the Senate and House.
In the short term you can ask yourself who would be a less awful president out of Biden and Trump and vote for that person.
Ive been hearing ‘in the short term’ all my life. It’s always ‘the most important election of our lifetimes.’ In the mean time the DNC keeps shifting the party and the country further to the right, while we lose rights.
Voting for either right wing fascist is gonna be a hard pass, if they want our votes they need to earn them or continue to lose.
I see a lot more progressives in the house and senate than I used to. We’re slowly pushing out the blue dog democrats… We’re just not there yet.
Progressives that are given no power until they parrot the party lines. OR ones that are allowed to speak differently but vote in line with the party