Thursday, May 2, 2024
Civil..
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.
During her 2021 confirmation process, Clarke, who now heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a questionnaire if she’d “ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.”
Her ex-husband Reginald Avery told that his finger was “sliced to the bone” after Clarke allegedly came at him with a knife after he revealed that he was cheating on her.
Charges against Clarke were dropped, and more than a year later, she filed paperwork that would wipe the arrest from her record.
Similarity..
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday announced his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between the countries over the Israel-Hamas war.
Petro again described Israel’s siege of Gaza as “genocide.” He previously suspended purchases of weapons from Israel and compared that country’s actions in Gaza to those of Nazi Germany.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Lawlessness..
Johnson called on President Joe Biden to compel the ICC to stand down from reported plans to issue a warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pressing the president to use “every available tool to prevent such an abomination.”
“Such a lawless action by the ICC would directly undermine U.S. national security interests,” Johnson said in a statement on Monday. “If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could create and assume unprecedented power to issue arrest warrants against American political leaders, American diplomats, and American military personnel, thereby endangering our country's sovereign authority.”
What happened to "No one is above the law? ........Biden's elastic Democracy at its best.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Warrants..
Israeli government officials believe that the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague is preparing warrants for senior officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , according to reports from The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and Times of Israel .
The New York Times released a report on Sunday citing five Israeli and foreign officials who speculated that the ICC could officially accuse Israel of preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza and conducting an “excessively harsh” military response to the October 7 terror attack by Hamas.
Previously, Netanyahu has stated that any legal decision by the ICC would not affect the Israeli government’s actions.