Posted on 07/13/2026 4:45:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the International criminal court (ICC) on Monday, claiming that the global tribunal was interfering with US military and law enforcement operations at the risk of American sovereignty.
Rubio invoked images of US Border Patrol agents and elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” and tried by judges from around the world in a lengthy op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Monday.
“If we stand idle, all of them will be at the mercy of foreign judges, thousands of miles away – facing the constant risk of prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called ‘crime’ of defending their own country,” Rubio warned in a companion video posted to X.
The state department plan to “dismantle” the ICC will involve pressuring other nations to abandon the court, according to CNN. “Nations that refuse to reject the ICC’s false authority while relying on US assistance are likely to come under increased scrutiny,” an official told the outlet, adding that possible punishments could involve sanctions, travel bans and visa revocations.
But three international legal experts described Rubio’s remarks as a mischaracterization of the tribunal’s powers.
“The ICC is not claiming jurisdiction over conduct in the United States,” said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. “Rubio is dressing up his quest for impunity for American war crimes under the label of national sovereignty, which ignores the sovereign right of other nations to invoke the ICC for crimes committed on their territory.”
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Now, that’s a tall order, but Marco and others in Trump’s Team can get it done. The will is there.
The international Court is a False Court.
Reminds me of the US Fed judges who make a decision for the whole of the USA instead of the confines of their own district. The USSC finally said...Fed Judges cannot go beyond their district.
Marco is 100% right.
How many divisions do they have?
Dismantling this court will not solve the problem.
Some judge in Germany or Belgium or France will still issue arrest warrants against US citizens for violations of “International Law”.
And some cop, somewhere will arrest. And the judge and prosecutor will have a trial.
The way to fix it is to adopt a US policy that says the US will bomb the capital city of any nation that tries this BS.
Human Rights Watch… the group whose legal pressure and harassment of Jordan in the case of their capture of an Iraqi official who had driven two of the 9/11 hijackers to the Jan 2000 Malaysia terrorist summit from the airport in Kuala Lumpur caused Jordan to release him.
Just let the court know if it grabs any US citizen, politician, soldier, etc., their court will vanish.
The guy who founded HRW eventually left it to form another human rights group because of its bias, it favors islamofascists.
Rubio will turn the screws on the Netherlands for sure to do it. That’s where the court is based.
Arrest warrants of the ICC out for Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin by the way.
,,, get it done then dismantle the UN.
US subpoenaed by the Hague? We are not subject to their jurisdiction. Why respond to it when we can just blow the damned courthouse up with all the cosplay judges in it.
While they are at it they should get rid of the UN too.
Rubio is definitely setting himself up to be the next POTUS, or possibly VP to Vance.
Do it.
L
Good for Marco - glad to see he has some extra time...
Great idea. Since it has been politicized
Winning
“Rubio invoked images of ... elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” and tried by judges from around the world in a lengthy op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Monday.”
Hmm, sounds like what Rubio did to Maduro.
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