US Reps. Mike Thompson (D) and Jared Huffman (D) were sued in federal court Thursday by San Francisco Bay Area constituents who alleged their votes for Israeli military aid support genocide in Gaza.
The complaint alleged Thompson and Huffman’s votes in support for the aid package in April violated the constitutional rights of their constituents by using their taxes “for the unlawful purpose of complicity in genocide.”
The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which allocated over $26 billion in military aid including weapons systems and artillery, violates a number of federal laws that ban assisting foreign governments in human rights ...
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