{"id":252881,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252881"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:22:28","slug":"77-groups-worldwide-back-genocide-lawsuit-against-biden-in-u-s-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/77-groups-worldwide-back-genocide-lawsuit-against-biden-in-u-s-court\/","title":{"rendered":"77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit against Biden in U.S. Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden holds a Cabinet meeting joined by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, at the White House on 2 Oct 2023 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Photo: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10 Jan 2024<\/em> – Dozens of legal<\/span> and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for failing to \u201cprevent an unfolding genocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In late December, 77 groups \u2014\u00a0representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents \u2014 filed an amicus briefOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/a> in a lawsuit that Palestinian human rights organizations, residents of Gaza, and U.S. citizens with family members impacted by Israel\u2019s ongoing assault brought against the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

In the amicus brief, which is an avenue for groups not directly involved in a lawsuit to give the court information to consider in its ruling, the organizations argue that the plaintiffs establish that a genocide, or serious risk of genocide, of Palestinians in Gaza is occurring. They also argue that the U.S. is violating its duties under international law to prevent and not be complicit in genocide, and that those U.S. failures contribute to the erosion of \u201clong and widely-held norms of international law,\u201d including the Genocide Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both established in 1948 in the wake of World War II.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit is headed for a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California later this month. Meanwhile, in an 84-page complaintOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/a> brought by South Africa, Israel faces charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The court will begin to hear arguments in that case on Thursday and could issue provisional measures. That could include directing Israel to suspend its military operations in Gaza, stop any procedures that are forcibly displacing or starving Palestinians in Gaza, or preserve evidence related to the allegations.<\/p>\n

The lawyers overseeing the U.S. lawsuit believe that the decisions rendered by the ICJ could indirectly impact their case as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the District Court is obviously not bound by the ICJ, it will have to, and the government will have to, contend with the fact that the highest authority, the world court, has issued an order in which it has found that the case of genocide \u2014 there\u2019s a plausible case,\u201d said Astha Sharma Pokharel, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization representing the plaintiffs against the U.S. \u201cIt will have implications for the United States around both its failure to prevent this genocide and for its complicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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10 Jan 2024 – Dozens of legal and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for failing to \u201cprevent an unfolding genocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":252882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2197,87,865,1643,88,651,427,70,1025],"class_list":["post-252881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-biden","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-israel","tag-justice","tag-palestine","tag-usa","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252883,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881\/revisions\/252883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}