cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54713532
President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251210120244/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/
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This, but more “I like to send my army down to the courthouse”. This is the kind of thing you can only get away with if you think you can successfully intimidate the court into not going after you.