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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw 5h5 hours ago
The US is the only UN member state that hasn’t ratified the international convention on the rights of the child


...The U.S. signed the treaty under Bill Clinton in 1995, an essentially symbolic agreement with the principles set forth under the treaty. But ratification of any treaty in the United States requires a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate to pass, and a number of Republican senators, claiming concerns about U.S. sovereignty, have consistently opposed ratification...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/21/why-wont-the-u-s-ratify-the-u-n-s-child-rights-treaty/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5855820ef580


ACLU article: https://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/treaty-ratification/theres-only-one-country-hasnt-ratified-convention-childrens

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1. Republicans love to torture poor people, even children and they damn well will preserve that right.

Despicable assholes.

I have to get out of here if we lose the midterms, but I really hate to leave my adult daughter. She and her husband have good jobs and don't want to leave them. Don't know what to do, either way seems unbearable.

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2. I agree and am thinking the same. I have adult sons and I think one would come with me, thinking

Costa Rica..

[Wounded Bear]

3. The most important right that a Repub protects...

is the right to be an asshole and treat people like shit.

Can't mess with that one.

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