Blinken personally intervened to block the designation of the Netzah Yehuda unit, which was implicated in the unlawful killing of an American citizen, despite his staff seeking to sanction them. The lawsuit highlights that Blinken asserted a "roadmap to remediation," a completely invented standard, instead of the law’s requirements for accountability, thereby circumventing the existing legal structure for sanctioning abusive units. DAWN maintains that these actions demonstrate the State Department's political decision to ignore the law for political reasons.