Former Philippine President Duterte awaits trial in the ICC for using the pretext of a drug war for his murder campaign. Trump should also be charged with a crime against humanity. Public outrage is mounting over the Trump administration’s September 2 “double tap” strike, in which the U.S. military bombed a small boat for a… Read more »
I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders. The courageous action of six Democratic members of Congress has thrust into the national discourse the duty of military and CIA personnel to disobey Donald Trump’s illegal orders. As the Trump administration continues to unlawfully murder… Read more »
A UN Special Rapporteur has decried the resolution as a violation of Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly committed the UN’s original sin when it partitioned Palestine to create Israel. This launched the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous people, and the establishment of a settler colonial state. Now,… Read more »
The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings. As the Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats on the high seas and mounts the largest U.S. military buildup in decades in the Caribbean, it is moving inexorably toward an all-out, illegal attack and forcible regime change in… Read more »
In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: “We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel … [And] you used them well.” As Donald Trump congratulates Israel for its conduct of the genocide in Gaza, he should be charged with aiding… Read more »
Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump. The Supreme Court’s new term, which began last week, presents the court with a monumental opportunity to hand Donald Trump unbridled executive authority and eviscerate the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. The court appears poised to rubber stamp many of… Read more »
As the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza exceeds 67,000 and famine has reached the “catastrophic” phase, thousands of taxpayers across the country have united with Palestinian-Americans to file an international legal complaint against the U.S. government for funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. An initial petition was filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights… Read more »
Donald Trump has ignored UN rules about attacking other nations, but he is not the first US president to do so. In his inflammatory September 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump expressed contempt for the UN, falsely claiming he had ended seven wars and stating, “I realized that the United Nations wasn’t… Read more »
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions are suing the Trump administration. Outrage flared last week about the University of California’s capitulation to this era’s resurgent McCarthyism, as news spread that the university has provided the names of at least 160 students, faculty members, and staff at the University of California, Berkeley,… Read more »
A federal district court held that Trump “willfully” violated the Posse Comitatus Act by sending troops to enforce immigration law in L.A. Donald Trump appears fixated on “creating a national police force with the President as its chief,” U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer wrote, holding that Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles to… Read more »