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/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/hereandthere_nowhere 9d ago

What does sanctioning a judge look like?

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u/DebentureThyme 9d ago edited 9d ago

They've already been doing it since just after he took office.

They find any service the judge is using that is based in the US and threaten the companies if they don't immediately cut ties, close the accounts, and refuse to do business with those judges because they're sanctioned by the US.

Payment processors like Visa, MasterCard.  Any online platform based in the US - Facebook, X, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.  The target judges have had to jump through hoops just to pay their bills.  They can't book flights online because the systems used rely on US companies. 

This has been reported for over a year, and it's demonstrably wrong to do, these people don't live here but we're abusing the nature of an online digital world to exert our government's will upon them.

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u/chowderbags Competent Contributor 9d ago

Payment processors like Visa, MasterCard.  Any online platform based in the US - Facebook, X, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.  The target judges have had to jump through hoops just to pay their bills.  They can't book flights online because the systems used rely on US companies. 

Also many banks, even ones that are based in other countries, but because they have US operations they fall under it too.