U.S. hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions as part of drive to dismantle tribunal

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has im­posed sweep­ing new sanc­tions on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court as part of its cam­paign to dis­man­tle the tri­bunal over in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Unit­ed States and its al­lies, in­clud­ing Is­rael.

Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio an­nounced the sanc­tions Fri­day, af­ter the No­bel Peace Prize was award­ed to South African ju­rist Navi Pil­lay, a for­mer judge at the ICC and oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al courts. Trump has cov­et­ed that prize for him­self.

“We will ban trans­ac­tions with this rogue court, cut­ting off their re­sources and crip­pling its abil­i­ty to op­er­ate against us,” Ru­bio said in a video ad­dress post­ed to so­cial me­dia. “The Unit­ed States and the Amer­i­can peo­ple are not sub­ject to the ju­ris­dic­tion of this fake ICC.”