Human rights lawyers sue Trump administration

The World

A group of US human rights lawyers is suing the Trump administration over an executive order targeting the international criminal court in The Hague. They say the move is keeping them from doing their work on behalf of war crimes victims around the world. Host Marco Werman speaks to Diane Marie Amann, a professor of international law at the University of Georgia and one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

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