Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Helped Militant Iranian Group
Politics News Blog
According to Washington Post, Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to join the Supreme Court, once represented National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) an affiliate of an armed Iranian exile group as it challenged its State Department designation as a foreign terrorist organization. Barrett disclosed her legal work for the group, which she undertook while employed at a law firm in Washington, in the Senate questionnaire she submitted during her 2017 confirmation process to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. The work did not come up in her confirmation hearing.
The NCRI is affiliated with the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a onetime militant group comprising Iranian exiles who oppose Iran’s clerical regime. The group, however, has also been dogged by accusations of human rights abuses, after some former members described cultlike practices by the organization designed to control its members.
Former New York mayor and Trump ally Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich, and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton have both been outspoken proponents of the group, as have Democrats like former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell and former Vermont governor Howard Dean.
The Obama administration removed the group from the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations in 2012.
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