Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced final week that he would impose sanctions on 4 International Criminal Court judges for concentrating on the US and Israel, however neither of them are signatories.
In a press release, Rubio stated (unique emphasis):
Today, I’ve engaged straight within the International Criminal Court efforts by Solomy Barungi Bossa of Uganda, Ruz del Carmen Ibañez Carranza of Peru, Rain Adelaide Sophie Arapini Gunsou of Benin, and Betty Holler of Slovenia to “impose duties to the International Criminal Court” pursued by President Trump’s Executive Order 14203, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to analyze, arrest, detain or prosecute American or Israeli residents with out consent from the United States or Israeli. Neither the United States nor Israel are Roman regulation events.
As ICC judges, these 4 people are actively concerned within the ICC’s unlawful and unfounded actions concentrating on the United States or our shut ally, Israel. The ICC is politicized and falsely asserts its free discretion to analyze, declare and prosecute the residents of the United States and our allies. This harmful declare and abuse of energy violates the sovereignty and nationwide safety of the United States and our allies, together with Israel.
President Donald Trump had already recovered ICC sanctions in February after President Joe Biden overturned Trump’s earlier sanctions. The United States has by no means signed Roman legal guidelines that management the ICC and has not agreed to submit US officers to the ICC’s jurisdiction, however Trump had imposed sanctions on the ICC throughout his first time period after courts started concentrating on US army personnel over actions in Afghanistan.
Biden lifted sanctions on the ICC, however emphasised that the US nonetheless rejected jurisdiction. He later claimed he was livid when the court docket issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel will not be a signator of Roman regulation, and there’s proof that after Khan was accused of sexual misconduct, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan rushed to file prices towards Netanyahu to deflect surveillance.