Earlier this month, I wrote about the curious case of the Global Magnitsky Act, which, shortly after being scheduled for markup in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April, disappeared from the committee’s agenda. The original Magnitsky Act, which was signed into law in 2012 and permits sanctions on Russian individuals involved in human-rights violations, is for obvious reasons vigorously opposed by the Kremlin, and they are not keen to see the sanctions approach entrenched in the Global Magnitsky Act, which would expand the original bill to include human-rights abusers worldwide.In D.C., California congressman Dana Rohrabacher seems to be toeing …read more
Source: National Review
