Wednesday, May 22, 2013

House Resolution Goes Beyond Genocide Recognition Seeking Truth and Justice


House Resolution Goes Beyond Genocide
Recognition Seeking Truth and Justice
 
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
 
In a welcome move, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that advocates a new approach for the pursuit of Armenian rights in Congress, going beyond genocide recognition.
 
This new bipartisan initiative, introduced by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY), and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), is appropriately titled: “Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Act.”

Thursday, May 16, 2013

White House Files Politically-Motivated, Anti-Armenian Brief to US Supreme Court


By Harut Sassounian 
Publisher, The California Courier 
 
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama Administration last October if it should review a Federal Appeals Court decision that had struck down a California law (Section 354.4) extending the statute of limitations on Armenian Genocide-era life insurance claims. 
 
The U.S. Solicitor General, the lawyer representing the United States government before the Supreme Court, filed a response last week. He urged the Supreme Court not to hear the appeal, and let stand the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the California law “impermissibly” intruded into the federal government’s foreign relations powers. 
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