Unfortunate coincidence at the Int'l Court of Justice

 
From: "Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
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Date: January 23rd 2024
   This is an interesting Intercept interview of one of the CCR attorneys prosecuting the federal suit in San Francisco against Biden, Blinken and Austin for genocide.

   The CCR lawyer explains the background of Judge Joan Donahue, the US-designated judge at the International Court of Justice who also happens to be the chief judge of the entire court. She can't control any votes but her own, of course, but her resume as an international lawyer is as disturbing as it is unsurprising:

   "Joan Donahue, she served in the Obama administration at the State Department, and she was the principal legal advisor to the State Department under Hillary Clinton, at a time that the Obama administration was dramatically expanding American drone strikes, the U.S. assassination programs.

   "But, deeper back in Donahue’s history, she was a legal advisor for the United States when Nicaragua sued the United States at the world court for backing the contra death squads in Nicaragua, for the mining of the harbors and the shores around Nicaragua. And the court in that case had 15 decisions that it voted on, and it found in its verdict that the United States was in breach of its obligations under international law, not to use force against another state, not to intervene in its affairs, not to violate its sovereignty, not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce, and in breach of a number of other treaties.

   "So, this judge has very deep ties to, not just powerful figures within the United States, but served at some of the highest levels of the U.S. State Department, also served as part of the defense of the United States when it argued that the court had no jurisdiction to hear Nicaragua’s claims about the United States sponsoring death squads in their country."

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