Is the US Congress Complicit in the US President’s war crimes? Plans for Rome Statute Art 31? Is, the US Congress Criminally Liable?
According to Rome Statute Art 31, Grounds for excluding criminal responsibility, Article 31 (1) (a), a person is not criminally responsible if, at the time of their conduct, the person suffers from a mental disease or defect that destroys that person’s capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirement of law [1]. If the idea is to exempt the US President from acts of War Crimes and Acts of Terror that he himself declares on line he has carried out using Rome Statue Art 31 or similar domestic legal provisions, then wouldn’t the US Congress be criminally liable for not restraining him even when he was clearly carrying out war crimes across countries without legal sanction for the criminal attacks. The question that remains unaddressed, isn’t the US Congress criminally liable for acts of the US President as they in spite of clear evidence from his self-declared explanation, reflections...