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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is warning that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has morphed from a narrow tribunal for the world\u2019s worst atrocities into an unaccountable body seeking to prosecute American troops, police officers and Border Patrol agents. The Trump administration intends to fight back.<\/p>\n

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In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rubio argued the ICC, established in 2002, was originally marketed as a limited backstop for the gravest crimes. Instead, he wrote, the court now seeks \u201cnear-unlimited reach\u201d to override the courts and constitutions of sovereign nations and prosecute Americans before judges \u201cfrom random countries across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio noted President Bill Clinton declined to submit the Rome Statute, the ICC\u2019s founding treaty, to the Senate, citing \u201cconcerns about significant flaws in the Treaty.\u201d A bipartisan Senate supermajority later passed the American Servicemembers\u2019 Protection Act, authorizing the president to use \u201call means necessary\u201d to keep the ICC from detaining Americans.<\/p>\n

Americans were targeted anyway, Rubio said. In 2020, the ICC opened a war-crimes investigation into U.S. troops in Afghanistan after then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda argued the U.S. hadn\u2019t prosecuted enough of its own soldiers \u2014 a move Rubio said made her \u201cthe final judge of U.S. military policy and the entire U.S. justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio described that probe as the opening move by a court backed by \u201cleftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cited recent escalations: activist groups pushing for action against deportations to El Salvador; a former ICC prosecutor calling Trump\u2019s strikes on narcoterrorists \u201ca crime against humanity,\u201d a claim Rubio said U.N. officials and Democratic politicians echoed; and a Washington advocacy group urging Iran to seek an ICC probe of U.S. personnel.<\/p>\n

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Pushback has only fueled more threats, Rubio wrote. When 12 senators wrote the ICC prosecutor with concerns, his office accused them of crimes. After Trump sanctioned ICC personnel, a former Human Rights Watch chief said all 125 member states would be obligated to arrest him.<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State warned it\u2019s \u201conly a matter of time\u201d before Border Patrol agents, Marines and federal prosecutors face prosecution simply for defending the country. Accepting that authority, he said, \u201cwould mean the death of the U.S. as a sovereign and independent nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio said the administration will protect U.S. service members and is launching a diplomatic campaign built around one message: \u201csovereign states over globalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is only the beginning,\u201d Rubio wrote. \u201cUsing all the tools at our government\u2019s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC \u2014 brick by brick, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The U.S. has never joined the ICC, which counts 125 member states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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