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International | When U.S. lawyers think globally, the White House finds it can act locally (with a little help from its foes) | Mindy Belz

Just when Bill Clinton needs all the lawyerly support he can get, the biggest coterie of legal beagles in the country is taking on the White House.

American Bar Association president Jerome Shestack, in a July 15 letter to the president, accused the White House of "intransigence" over an issue that has become near and dear to the attorneys' association: the creation of a world court independent of the United Nations and with supra-jurisdiction over individual nations.

The ABA's surprising support for global governance on criminal justice is not particularly new. Since 1992 the association has pressed for an international criminal court. Apparently eager for new venues for litigation, the ABA is lobbying aggressively overseas for "automatic" jurisdiction of a multinational body to adjudicate what it calls "core crimes": genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

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