Unless im mistaken i believe that the supreme court

[historian]

once ruled that any international accord signed by the US becomes law in the USA as well. In this case, why aren't we applying the Nuremberg trial rules against this bunch of thugs? Conspiring to start a war of aggression and crimes against humanity? Or is it because of our tendency to think of ourselves as being so superior certain rules don't apply to us?

[Solon]

1. Not just the Supreme Court, but the Constitution...

Article VI

All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

[historian]

2. then....

cant one hold the current congress in contempt for not enforcing the constitution? It might sound silly but it does appear there might be a basis for that question.

[Solon]

3. The only ones to do that would be the Judicial branch, and they suck at it...

My problem with Congress is that they gave up entirely too much power into the office of ONE person, and that's dangerous.

[stellanoir]

4. If memory serves,

one of the first things this "misadministration" did was minimize the Kyoto accords.

Then they proceeded to discredit the UN relentlessly and assumed the inability to prosecute by the ICC in short order.

Their presumed impunity is totaly without merit.

Nor is there trashing of the constitituion or there eviseration of the rule of law, nor them rolling back accountability to pre Magna Carta standards.

It's all bull and it's all unsustainable.

Times will change as the pendulum swings.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. The US has never ratified the Kyoto accord...

it's not binding on the US.

[nuxvomica]

5. I don't think that includes the Nuremberg trials

But UN treaties and the Geneva Conventions do apply as US law. There is plenty of domestic law they could be tried on. We don't need another law so much as a good constable to enforce it. That's supposed to be the DOJ's and Congress's job but they've failed to do it so far.