Democrats slam John Cornyn’s claim that Judge Jackson called Bush and Rumsfeld ‘war criminals’
In the War Crimes Act of 1996, Congress made it illegal to commit a “grave breach” of the Geneva Conventions.
“Respondents’ acts directing, ordering, confirming, ratifying, and/or conspiring to bring about the torture and other inhumane treatment of Petitioner Khiali-Gul constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity in violation of the law of nations under the Alien Tort Statute,” Jackson wrote in one such filing.
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