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Torture victims deserve better than head of state immunity
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On Thursday, the Biden administration decreed that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman was immune from a pending civil suit for damages in federal court under the Torture Victim Protection Act for allegedly ordering the grisly assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That shocking decree should be a wake-up call to Congress to amend the act to cure its unconstitutional crippling by the executive and judicial branches.    The statute was enacted in 1992 to make the United States a “shining city on a hill” in defense of human rights. It creates a civil damages remedy in United States courts against individuals for the universal human rights crimes of ext

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