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Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court (www.theguardian.com)
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This is bloody shocking. Not only dismantling and manipulating law institutions in the US, and Netanyahu trying the same in Israel, now this.

“It is not the ICC that Rubio is dismantling brick by brick – but the rules-based international order that grew out of the ashes of world war two.”

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Isn't America pretty much off limits for the ICC anyway? For some reason I was thinking that was like, part of the charter?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    The US isn't a signatory to the Rome Statute.

    From the article linked in the post:

    The international court, headquartered in The Hague, can only investigate crimes committed in states that are party to the Rome statute, the 2002 treaty that established the ICC. The United States has not ratified the treaty, nor has the court opened investigations into crimes committed on American soil.

    The US also has a law known as the 'Hague Invasion Act':

    The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court"[3] (ICC), located in The Hague, Netherlands.

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