Susan ☆ Whitney ☆ E Pluribus Unum ☆Out of Many,One (@smbwhitney) 's Twitter Profile
Susan ☆ Whitney ☆ E Pluribus Unum ☆Out of Many,One

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Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today: - He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White

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This process of releasing these documents will be so painfully difficult for Epstein survivors. Especially because the people behind Epstein’s crimes — those who helped and those who participated — will be on the defensive. Pay attention to the loudest and angriest people. And

This process of releasing these documents will be so painfully difficult for Epstein survivors. Especially because the people behind Epstein’s crimes — those who helped and those who participated — will be on the defensive. Pay attention to the loudest and angriest people. And
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12/2/25 Core Moral of the Nuremberg Trials after Hitler's rule is that individuals, including leaders and professionals, are personally responsible for grave wrongs & may not hide behind orders, nationalism, or domestic law when those conflict with fundamental human dignity. 🔋

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The trials established that some acts are so egregious—aggressive war, crimes against humanity, genocide—that they are “crimes against humanity” and “crimes under international law” for which people can be punished regardless of rank or state authority. 2

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They rejected the defenses that “it was legal in my country” or “I was just following orders” if a moral choice was possible, asserting that conscience and basic humanity must prevail over obedience. 3

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The Nuremberg Principles formulated after the trials state that anyone who commits an international crime is responsible and liable to punishment; that domestic law cannot erase that responsibility; and that heads of state and officials have no immunity for such crimes. 4

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They also affirm that the right to a fair trial remains essential even when judging horrific atrocities, linking accountability to procedural justice 5

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Nuremberg paved the way for the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and later Geneva Conventions, all of which try to codify a baseline of human dignity that states may not violate. 6

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It also inspired later international tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and contributed to the creation of the International Criminal Court, extending the idea that systematic atrocities will be judged in law, not left to victors’ revenge alone. 7

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From the Doctors’ Trial came the Nuremberg Code, whose first principle is that voluntary, informed consent of the human subject is “absolutely essential” in research & no treating people as objects or sacrificing their bodies without their free, informed agreement. 8

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Legal scholars often describe Nuremberg as a standing warning that law detached from morality can become a tool of evil, as seen in Nazi laws that tried to legalize persecution and extermination. 9

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The enduring lesson is that professionals, citizens, and states must continually test laws and orders against a higher standard of human rights, refusing complicity when those orders cross into crimes against humanity. 10