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Originally Posted by <IF> Marius
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But international law expert Sarah Cleveland, a professor of human and constitutional rights at New York City's Columbia Law School, said if the U.S. fails to act on the world court order, other countries may follow suit.
"This can only come back to hurt U.S. citizens when they are detained abroad," she wrote in an e-mail. " ... When a global leader like the U.S. refuses to comply with its clear international legal obligations (and everyone agrees that this is a clear legal obligation), it undermines the willingness of other states to comply with their own obligations and it inspires them not to trust us to obey ours."
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Sarah Cleveland, "professor of human and constitutional rights at New York City's Columbia Law School"
Exactly when did you think US Constitutional rights are applied on a world-wide basis? These folks are the new "UN-touchables"
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