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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

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763 points tartoran | 2 comments | 23 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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mikeyouse ◴[23 Oct 25 14:35 UTC] No.45682307[source]▶
> Tim Rieser, former senior aide to Senator Leahy who wrote the 2011 amendment mandating information gathering, told the BBC the gateway's removal meant the State Department was "clearly ignoring the law".

We're in a really bad place... with a servile congress, it turns out there aren't really any laws constraining the executive branch. When everything relies on "independent IGs" for law enforcement inside executive branch departments, and the President can fire them all without consequence or oversight, then it turns out there is no law.

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1. BoredPositron ◴[23 Oct 25 15:06 UTC] No.45682704[source]▶
It's about ignoring due process. If you don't want it repeal the law. They can do it easily but ignoring it sends a different message...
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2. mikeyouse ◴[23 Oct 25 15:18 UTC] No.45682836[source]▶
This is exactly right - the Trump admin claims to have a mandate to do all sorts of things, and they're just unilaterally doing so - in plain violation of the law. If they actually the mandate they say they do, they'd pass laws repealing the requirements they don't like and defunding the programs they dislike rather than illegally impounding the funds and illegally killing programs like this one. Except it turns out that "illegal" is only important if there's someone capable of enforcing the law and under this Supreme Court's clearly insane reading of our laws and constitution, there is nobody that can constrain the President.