On January 18 IRmep urged Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan to block unlawful US foreign aid disbursements to Israel. We also further exposed and refuted the Justice Department’s legal campaign to protect an unlawful legislative rule that attempts to punish all who speak or write about Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program.
The delivery of U.S. foreign aid to Israel depends on the federal government’s ability to silence internal and external dissenters who raise the issue of Israel’s nuclear weapons program as a disqualifying factor. On Wednesday, IRmep filed its most important motion to date—questioning the Justice Department’s claims that the president and his agencies can plead “willful ignorance” about Israel’s nuclear weapons program—by claiming what is broadly known in the public domain is “government classified information.” Read the entire 41-page brief from the Center for Policy and Law. (PDF)