A lawsuit led by Palestinians and Palestinian Americans that accused President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials of enabling genocide in Gaza was rejected Monday by a federal appeals court, which upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit.

The three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that courts cannot review the executive branch’s decisions on foreign policy, even when there is a risk of breaking domestic and international law.

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God emperor Biden is immune it was an official decision.

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Lol, you always know how to show you don’t understand how anything works. This has been us policy for all time, it has nothing to do with Biden at all. This isn’t a matter for the courts, it’s a matter for the legislature.

Make sure to attend your government classes when you get to senior year, you desperately need a civics lesson.

E: LOL looks like someone beat me to the punch on you needing a civics lesson.

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The other person is wrong and so are you. You should probably learn what you are talking about before frantically defending Genocide Joe

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Sounds like a separation of powers issue.

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Sounds like a “political violence is already fully condoned as long as the president does it outside of the country” issue.

Makes one wonder why we’re supposed to be upset now that it’s legal inside of the country as well.

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Go take a civics lesson.

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courts cannot review the executive branch’s decisions on foreign policy

Then who can? And if nobody can, what’s the point of having laws for it?

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Congress can.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-foreign-policy-powers-congress-and-president

Congress also plays an oversight role. The annual appropriations process allows congressional committees to review in detail the budgets and programs of the vast military and diplomatic bureaucracies. Lawmakers must sign off on more than a trillion dollars in federal spending every year, of which more than half is allocated to defense and international affairs. Lawmakers may also stipulate how that money is to be spent. For instance, Congress repeatedly barred the Obama administration from using funds to transfer detainees out of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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Yeah that makes sense.

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This was always going to be DOA. US courts can’t provide the relief they sought.

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Surprising nobody.

Even before the Supreme Court ruling, you can’t legally challenge official US policy.

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