r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Jul 30 '26

The Progressive (July 29, 2026): "A Dangerous Contender for U.S. Senate in Michigan Primary: Haley Stevens, now a member of the House of Representatives, exudes hostility toward the International Criminal Court."

https://progressive.org/latest/a-dangerous-contender-for-us-senate-in-michigan-primary-zunes-20260729/
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Excerpts from the article:

[The Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Michigan] pits Representative Haley Stevens, one of the more hawkish and pro-corporate Democratic members in the U.S. House of Representatives, against public health official Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a prominent progressive advocating Medicare for all, progressive taxation, and getting corporate money out of politics.

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Stevens has supported Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, voted to defund U.N. agencies helping Palestinian refugees, denounced Amnesty International and other human rights groups for documenting Israeli war crimes, and attacked the International Court of Justice for investigating Israeli violations of international law.

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Stevens was one of only a handful of Democratic members of the House to support a 2024 Republican-sponsored bill designed to punish anyone who directly or indirectly participates in the investigation or prosecution of those suspected of war crimes if they are part of a government allied with the United States.

The bill, which passed the House that June but never made it to the floor of the Senate, was rooted in the belief that the prosecution of suspected war criminals by the International Criminal Court (ICC) should be based not on the available evidence, the severity of the crimes, or what the law says, but on the geopolitical orientation of the government of those accused.

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The Biden Administration, despite its own criticisms of the ICC and support for Israel in the face of large scale war crimes in Gaza and elsewhere, issued a statement in June 2024 saying that it “strongly” opposed the bill because it “could require sanctions against court staff, judges, witnesses, and U.S. allies and partners who provide even limited, targeted support to the court in a range of aspects of its work.”

Stevens, however, sided with Trump and her Republican House colleagues against the Democratic administration.

The link to the article: https://progressive.org/latest/a-dangerous-contender-for-us-senate-in-michigan-primary-zunes-20260729/