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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joined by commission chair Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon while announcing the formation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights during a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Pompeo’s “Rights Commission” is Worse Than Feared: Part I

Human rights groups have sued to shut it down. A study of its hearings shows its anti-rights leanings are even worse than feared.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joined by commission chair Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon while announcing the formation of a commission to redefine human rights, based on “natural law and natural rights”, during a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Trump’s “Unalienable Rights” Commission Likely to Promote Anti-Rights Agenda 

On Monday, we learned who would be serving on the State Department's new "Commission on Unalienable Rights." The track records of the chair and the other members raise even further…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence listen as President Donald Trump speaks about the government shutdown on January 25, 2019, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

EXCLUSIVE: Draft Charter of Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda

Just Security has obtained the draft Charter for the Commission. Professor Hamilton writes: If the Commission follows the ideological roots of the "natural law" theory it is grounded…
Activists rally against the transgender military service ban at the Reflecting Pool of the U.S. Capitol April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Their signs read, “Stand with transgender service members, recruits and their families.”

How the Pentagon Made Transgender Rights Disappear

The Pentagon's new limits on transgender military service amount to a ban that is anything but "gender-blind."
Silhouettes of soldiers on a transgender flag

The Mattis Transgender Policy Will Go Into Effect Next Friday

Last Tuesday, in response to a government motion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit altered its previous schedule and ordered the Clerk to issue the…
Supreme Court Building

What Now for the Mattis Transgender Policy?

As I predicted here a couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court today unanimously denied the government’s petitions for certiorari before judgment in the “transgender…
Silhouettes of soldiers on a transgender flag

Untangling the Issues in the “Transgender in the Military” Litigation

A few weeks ago, the Department of Justice made something of a splash by filing petitions for certiorari “before judgment” in three of the pending cases challenging then-Secretary…

Animus, Not Readiness: Trump & Mattis Move Full Steam Ahead on Unconstitutional Trans Military Ban

While it all started with an early morning tweet (as it so often does), this week President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis both took steps to enshrine Trump’s…
Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee January 11, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed

Just Security recently broke the story that the State Department was considering shuttering or downgrading certain functional offices and Senate-confirmed ambassadorships within…

A Round-Up of Just Security’s Coverage of Trump’s Trans Ban

It’s been over two weeks since President Donald Trump tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from serving from the military. On the Wednesday it happened, the White House…

Tweets, Trans, and the American Military

On the morning of July 26, President Donald Trump turned out a triptych of tweets taking a policy position banning transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. military.…

Trump’s Trans Ban is Bad for Military Readiness

An Army staff sergeant with multiple combat deployments, in charge of an infantry squad. A West Point grad innovating forward-based personnel support in a combat zone. A Lieutenant…
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