Manhattan federal judge enjoins Trump from vendetta against human rights lawyers
by Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
A federal judge in New York on Monday issued an injunction against President Donald Trump’s June executive order sanctioning human rights lawyers cooperating with an International Criminal Court investigation of alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan.
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from targeting four law professors with criminal or civil penalties for supporting the work of the ICC in its investigation of alleged extrajudicial killing, torture, rape, and other potential war crimes committed by military and CIA personnel and allied forces during the ongoing 19-year war in Afghanistan the longest campaign of the so-called War on Terror.