{"id":547282,"date":"2010-04-28T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2010-04-28T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:57:53","slug":"one-big-wall-street-journal-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547282","title":{"rendered":"One Big Wall Street Journal Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kevin Jon Heller <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whoops, spoke too soon about the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8217;s <a  href=\"http:\/\/ijcentral.org\/article\/international_law_and_order\/\">anti-ICC editorial<\/a>.\u00a0 It does indeed contain a lie &#8212; and its a doozy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s more, no amount of reform of the founding treaty will change the  ICC\u2019s inherent flaw. The ICC is a child of the doctrine of \u201cuniversal  jurisdiction,\u201d which holds that courts can adjudicate crimes committed  anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As anyone who has spent five minutes reading the Rome Statue knows, the Court is based on two forms of jurisdiction: territorial and active-nationality.\u00a0 Both of which the U.S. uses and accepts that other states may use.\u00a0 Proposals to base the ICC on universal jurisdiction were soundly rejected during the drafting of the Rome Statute.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the Editorial Board of the <em>WSJ<\/em> cares.\u00a0 In the absence of facts, lies suit them just fine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/PUQ0q9xqFQo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Jon Heller Whoops, spoke too soon about the WSJ&#8217;s anti-ICC editorial.\u00a0 It does indeed contain a lie &#8212; and its a doozy: What\u2019s more, no amount of reform of the founding treaty will change the ICC\u2019s inherent flaw. The ICC is a child of the doctrine of \u201cuniversal jurisdiction,\u201d which holds that courts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}