Gas it makes sense to say those are chemical weapons but with respect to otherwise harmless chemicals the only thing under the governments theory that turns them from chemical weapons weapons chemicals into chemical weapons as a verb. Its their malicious use in that puts it yuan an odd situation. If congress had come in and said look there are certain chemicals that by their very nature are almost inherently weaponized congress would have a lot more authority to proceed. Counsel we permit that in all sorts of definitional sections of the criminal code. We call a dangerous weapon anything that you used to inflict serious injury on someone. I dont think of a car is necessarily a dangerous weapon. Its something i used to transport myself. Its only when im using it for a prohibited purpose that it turns itself into a dangerous weapon. So i am having a problem with this noun herb distinction. Why isnt the intentional killing and burning of another human being using chemicals the essence of
Seems to largely copy without getting anything so the treaty could be constitutional but implementing legislation adds nothing is constitutional. I would quarrel with your premise. It is through the convention in the statute used similar terms and terminology. Theres one important difference between the convention and the statute that differentiates the case and the difference is convention itself doesnt directly regulate individual conduct at all. And so all the convention tells the States Parties go regulate individual conduct in exactly the way this convention regulates state parties. And then what the legislation does is as Justice Ginsberg said just mirrored the convention as the convention contemplated. Taking quite precise with the convention says and this is article vii section i 33 a of the blue brief appendix what it says is each nation status on the convention agrees in accordance with its constitutional processes to pass penal laws that make unlawful for individuals, conduc
Founders to justify their own meanspirited, short down, pro shutdown ideology. What senator cruise doesnt understand is the patriots he founded New Hampshire, the patriots he founded maryland did not pray for their president to fail, they prayed for their president to succeed. [applause] delivernt intelligence, they didnt belittle earnings. They actually aspired to it and they hoped others would as well. They did not appeal to americas fears, they brought forward bravery and they would never have abandoned the war on war on to declare a women, war on workers, war on immigrants, a war on the sick, and a war on hungry children. [applause] i know that people like mitch inell and kelly ayotte know they have been trying to distance themselves from the tea party ever since they nearly drove our country into default. But the truth is, sadly, there is very little difference today between the tea party and so called mainstream republicans. Just ask terrell shea porter. Just ask annie custer. Th
Latest poll shows 53 will vote no. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad where he met iraqs Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. President barack obama is expected to announce a new strategy against the Islamic State fighters in iraq. King a abdullah is holding a coalition that includes nine mostly European Countries as well as the u. S. John kerry has announced 48 million in additional u. S. Aid to help iraqis forced from their homes by the fighting. Hes praised the creation of iraqs new government and said more must be done to give stability back to the country. Obviously the hard work is very far from over. We all know that. In many ways its just beginning. Establishing a government doesnt mean a lot if it is not able to governor effectively or doesnt governor inclusively. And it particularly needs to governor inclusively in order to represent the interests of all the iraqi people. We talk with john hedron who joins us from erbil. What do iraqi politicians want from this
In the chesapeake and make it far more effective and destructive to the americans than had been their operation in 1813, when they did not have the same level of support and assistance from black americans. Now, this is an image that is produced. Im going to get this magic arrow out of the way, which is not part of the original image. You may recognize this structure. Its the u. S. Capitol building. This was produced in 1817 by a critic of american slavery, an american critic of american slavery named jesse torrey and jesse torrey wants you to think about the destruction of the Capitol Building and wants you to draw certain conclusions from it and those conclusions that he wants you to reach are indicated by the other figures hes put in this particular engraving. You can see down here in this right foreground, a group of enslaved africanamericans, a slave coffle. Washington, d. C. , was a slave fss a major center for the interstate slave trade of the United States, which is acceleratin