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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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        5 months ago

        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