Enemy of Mankind

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th century. The Alien Tort Statute allowed a Paraguayan woman to find justice for a terrible crime committed in her homeland. But as America reached further and further out into the world, the court was forced to confront the contradictions in our country’s ideology: sympathy vs. sovereignty. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that could reshape the way America responds to human rights abuses abroad. Does the A.T.S. secure human rights or is it a dangerous overreach?

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0:00.0	Leadership support for more perfect is provided by the Joyce Foundation.
0:06.0	Okay, I'm Chad Abumrod, this is more perfect.
0:10.0	In the United States, we give the Supreme Court the power to find justice for people.
0:15.0	They come with boots, boom, boom, boom, boom.
0:18.0	People who've been abused and manipulated.
0:21.0	Horrible! I mean, they lean knack on their door.
0:24.0	That power extends beyond state borders.
0:26.0	They can with prepotencia.
0:28.0	Sometimes even beyond national borders.
0:31.0	With, with, here I come and show you who I am.
0:35.0	Question is how far do we want it to go?
0:39.0	Should our Supreme Court be the Supreme Court of the world?
0:43.0	The Honorable, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
0:50.0	Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
0:54.0	All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States.
0:59.0	We're at the Dronaer and give their attention.
1:02.0	Well, the Court is now sitting.
1:04.0	Oh, yeah, God save the United States in this Honorable Court.
1:08.0	Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
1:24.0	Okay, so I go up at a time when a lot of people genuinely saw America differently than they do now.
1:36.0	This was the 70s and 80s, Carter Reagan years.
1:40.0	And there was a sense, particularly if you were new arrival,
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