This is an outrage and it is not getting enough attention. The United States has just barred American lawyers from defending war crime suspects at the U.N. Tribunal for Yugoslavia. We expect lawyers to file motions to stay proceedings while this is resolved. You can expect a loud protest from the defense bar. Stay tuned.

An executive order is aimed a cutting off support to about 200 people and organizations in the former Yugoslavia blacklisted by the U.S. government. It outlaws providing goods, services and funds to those people.

....The list, published on a U.S. government Web site, includes all the suspects in proceedings at the Yugoslav tribunal, including former President Slobodan Milosevic and his entire family.

About 20 American lawyers are defending suspects at the Yugoslav tribunal, which was established in 1993 to prosecute those to blame for war crimes during Yugoslavia's violent breakup in the 1990s.