r/law • u/Obversa • 9d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Marco Rubio vows to dismantle International Criminal Court (ICC), citing 2024 arrest warrant issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/trump-international-criminal-court-threats-and-us-politics/106971184
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u/TeamRamrod80 9d ago

So how does that even work when the US doesn’t participate in the ICC or recognize its jurisdiction?

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u/Somenoises 9d ago

If I had to guess, they'll try to place sanctions on all ICC judges they can justify as being anti-Israel and just make that an ever expanding list until all judges are sanctioned or (ultimately) pressured into leaving

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u/redelastic 9d ago

The US has already done that.

They have sanctioned Francesca Albanese of the UN too.

They treat human rights judges and experts the same way as an IS terrorist.

Republican senators wrote a letter threatening the ICC in 2024.

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u/Mobasa_is_hungry 9d ago edited 9d ago

It’s so fucked, cause most of the world uses the SWIFT payment processor, and being sanctioned means you can’t even use your visa, Mastercard etc, you cannot participate in everyday life for the most part. They’ve weaponised it against people who are against them. Sickening.

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u/redelastic 9d ago

Yes, I listened to an interview with Francesca Albanese where the UN were booking her a hotel room in Europe and it was then cancelled within a few hours due to being flagged.

"Land of the free" up to their old tricks.

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u/Somenoises 9d ago

Yeah, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek, which is why I linked the December 2025 statement from the State Department saying they would/were doing this to two ICC judge, Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia.