omersukrugoksu/iStockphoto City Bar Denounces Trump Order Threatening Sanctions Against International Court Lawyers Investigating Possible US War Crimes
"This attempt to use executive power to infringe upon the independence of a judicial institution contravenes established principles of judicial independence both in the U.S. and around the world," writes the bar association in an eight-page report denouncing the June executive order.
August 05, 2020 at 08:24 AM
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The New York City Bar Association is urging the Trump administration's own representatives and the U.S. Congress to resist an executive order that it says "particularly targets" International Criminal Court lawyers who are investigating, in part, war crimes allegedly committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and at CIA "black sites."
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