Pompeo’s new commission undermines universal human rights — just as planned

July 17, 2020

"The burning human rights problem for the Trump administration," write Elisa Massimino and Alexandra Schmitt, "[is] that too many 'subgroups' — read, women, LGBTQ people, black people, poor people, native peoples — are demanding rights, including (gasp) in 'domestic political discourse.' America’s rights tradition is under attack, Pompeo claimed, by people who have forgotten a fundamental truth: 'America is special. America is good.'"

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Constitution Center about the Commission on Unalienable Rights on Thursday in Philadelphia. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Read Elisa Massimino and Alexandra Schmitt’s opinion piece in the Washington Post here.