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.
Being reported with the tags of “op ed” and “why is this allowed?”
First, op ed articles aren’t banned.
Second, even though, IMHO, the author is COMPLETELY uninformed about what constitutes Presidential Immunity and an official act (see my non-mod reply 👇 there somewhere), it’s important to note that there IS a court case pending on this:
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/federal-appeals-court-hears-lawsuit-charging-biden-with-complicity-in-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
So that when the ruling comes down, and the discussion inevitably turns to if it was right or wrong, nobody is going “Wait, why is this the first time I’m hearing about this?”
Article from the person filing the suit:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/lawsuit-biden-complicity-genocide-gaza/