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Nahal Toosi: President Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies. But their attacks on the International Criminal Court -- describing it as, among other things, filled with "lunatics" and pledging to destroy it -- are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder: Are they afraid the court will prosecute them?

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Judges argue sanctions aimed to punish and coerce ICC decisions on US and Israeli war crimes cases.

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-- Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) 4:00 AM · Jun 25, 2026

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... That's the conclusion many former government officials and legal scholars are reaching. They point not only to Trump's anti-ICC campaign but also his administration's broader efforts to defund, abandon or otherwise damage a range of global mechanisms that enforce human rights laws, from treaties to United Nations organizations.

Those moves come as the Trump administration is accused of a series of abuses, from killing Iranian schoolchildren to deporting asylum-seekers. At the same time, Trump is going to great lengths to protect his backers from domestic justice, including through his extensive use of pardons.

"They're doing everything they can to evade accountability as they attack the very institutions and advocates charged with holding rights abusers to account," said Uzra Zeya, a former Biden administration official who is now president of Human Rights First.

Spokespeople for the White House and the State Department deny such assertions. In statements to me, they reiterated complaints that the ICC threatens U.S. sovereignty and cast their campaign against it as squarely within Trump's America First agenda. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-30 09:12 PM | Reply

Law, period. He's a ------- psychopath.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-31 02:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

24 years the US has not accepted the ICC.

If the US did accept the ICC, guess which Presidents could face charges for crimes since 2002?

There are no statute of limitations.

#3 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-07-31 08:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If the US did accept the ICC, guess which Presidents could face charges for crimes since 2002?

All of them?

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-31 08:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Are they afraid the court will prosecute them?

I would guess as we have seen in Spain the judicial systems in the West have become insane, and beyond justice serving branches, to the point of over riding the political will of the Democracies upon which they function in.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-31 08:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Why Trump is Afraid of International Law'

I'd be more afraid of the future generation of Nazi hunters around the world who are only now just realizing their calling.

The world definitely needs more superheroes.

#6 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-31 09:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5 | Posted by oneironaut

Fuck off retard. Nobody cares.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-01 07:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#3 ... 24 years the US has not accepted the ICC. ...

That's correct.

But then there are countries that do accept the ICC and its decisions.

And, if the ICC finds against a fmr Pres Trump, he would do well to avoid those countries.


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-01 07:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#4

Hey, look who's actually right for once!

YES. ALL OF THEM.

There is NO living president who isn't guilty of war crimes, with Shrubby and Mango Mussolini going as far as crimes against humanity. Not sure Biden doesn't qualify for that too, supplying weapons to the zionist entity for the purpose of committing a genocide would seem to be pretty far into crime against humanity territory.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-08-01 07:22 PM | Reply

@#9 ... There is NO living president who isn't guilty of war crimes ...

Guilty in public opinion, or convicted of war crimes by the ICC?

There's a significant difference.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-01 08:11 PM | Reply

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