By secret ballot on Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly elected 14 member states to join the 47-member UN Human Rights Council for three-year terms beginning on January 1, 2020. The abysmal human rights abusing Maduro regime in Venezuela, which received 105 favorable votes in the election, is one of them. It will be joined by other human rights abusing states such as Mauritania, Libya, and Sudan. According to the UN’s own membership criteria, these countries should have been summarily rejected. The fact that they each received a majority vote and will sit in judgment of other member states demonstrates yet again the moral depravity surrounding the misnamed Human Rights Council, from which the Trump administration rightly withdrew the U.S. last year.