• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Leahy Law and Foreign Assistance Act

    Read up on that. There would need to be a finding of fact by the relevant US embassy and departments within the gov’t before this comes into play. Without that, that act is irrelevant to Biden attempting to withhold aid.

    Could Biden direct the ambassador and relevant department heads to investigate so that he could legally withhold aid? Yes, he could. Should he? Also yes. But it’s not something the president can do unilaterally. Despite SCOTUS’ attempt to make it so, the president was never intended to be the sole sovereign of the country.

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      6 months ago

      Oh? Then what authority did he have to withhold the plane bombs?

      This is student loans all over again. You guys are going to shout that he can’t do that right up until he does it.

      The Leahy Law in text -

      No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.

      All he has to do is open a fucking newspaper. You’d have us believe he is deaf, dumb, and blind.