Amal clooney quits u.k. envoy role, protests law breach

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has quit her role as britain’s special envoy on media freedom in protest over the country’s intention to breach international law over brexit-related legislation. The british government has drafted a bill that it acknowledges would violate its international legal obligations and undercut parts of the divorce deal it signed before britain formally left the european union in January. Prime minister boris Johnson has said the bill was essential to counter “absurd” threats from brussels. “It is lamentable for the u.k. to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the Prime minister less than a year ago,” said Clooney, who is married to actor George Clooney, in a letter to foreign minister dominic raab.