"Judge Johnson now asked Watson a question. The treaty bars extradition for a political offence. So does this mean that if the US receives a request for extradition for a political offence from the UK, it can refuse it, but if the UK receives an extradition request for an identical political offence from the US, it cannot refuse it, and the Secretary of State cannot block it even if they consider it contrary to Article IV?
Watson replied yes, that is the position. He seemed to find nothing troubling in that at all. Judge Johnson, however, seemed to find it a strange proposition."
-Johnson is either pretending or deluded. The lack of reciprocation means he's merely a judge in the Satrapy: essentially a "District" judge. Terribly uncomfortable stuff realising you're essentially irrelevant in the grander scheme of things...
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