5/5 Through an executive action, without congressional or judicial approval, the Trump administration's State Department cuts have gutted the Leahy Law and its enforcement.

4/5 For 28 years, the Leahy Law stood as America’s most consequential human rights act — even though Israeli military units were exempted. But the Trump administration has cut the State Department Office of Security and Human Rights that had vetted the military units for abuses.

3/5 If a particular military unit was credibly found to have committed abuses, it would no longer be eligible for U.S. training or aid. This could limit the career of a foreign military officer. Even the threat of not being eligible for U.S. training can diminish their prospects.

2/5 I obtained the SouthCom document and later shared it with Amnesty International. Leahy cited it on the floor of the Senate during deliberations over what became known as the “Leahy Law.” Passed in 1997, the law narrowed the focus of human rights conditioning down to units.

3) And it may explain why the NRA, at the same time, is backing transgender gun rights against President Trump today.
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2) But the NRA has failed to attract many African American gun owners, and it has drawn even less Latinos. That may explain why NRA failed to back Black gun owner Philando Castile when he was killed by police in front his girlfriend and her daughter near Minneapolis.