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[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Our laws plainly spell out that if a state is interfering with aid distribution, aid and weapons to them must stop. Biden refused to admit that Israel was interfering with aid distribution in any way. According to Biden the gazans have food aid and aid workers have not been interfered with. I dont see how this violation can possibly be debated.

In the face of strenuous complaints by congress, Biden refused to admit that Israel could plausibly be involved in genocide, which would have triggered automatic safeguards in the Leahy laws and other laws around shipment of weapons and giving of foreign monetary aid.

Israel/Biden also repeatedly and consistently violated the geneva conventions, which we are a signatory of, so thats binding law in our legal system. That makes him a war criminal with blood on his hands.

Biden swore an oath to faithfully execute our laws, which he grossly violated, doing massive amounts of grievous criminal harm. These are the very definition of "high crimes".

https://www.commondreams.org/news/leahy-law-israel

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/17/palestine-israel-leahy-lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

And that's different than what any other US president would have done? Kowtowing to Israel is US government policy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Nothing different. I'd argue that's another indicator that the US's 'health' has been bad for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

The point is whether the 25th amendment should have been invoked.

If the conditions were met, then other past presidents doing the same thing just means the 25th amendment should have been invoked in those situations as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok, so def like -100 karma points for Biden, but it's kind of petty to focus on that when Trump was already at like -20 million before he even took office

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is there some rule that we just imprison whichever one lawbreaker is worst? I dont think thats how laws work. Supposedly we are a nation of laws.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

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