Senate Republicans are recommending President Trump issue an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court for its pursuit of war crimes cases against Israel, after Senate Democrats
The No. 2 Senate Republican plans to condemn the ICC for its embrace of ‘the legal fiction and the moral fraud that Israel violates human rights, that sovereignty doesn’t matter and that Israel has no right to defend itself.
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-led effort to advance legislation imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing concerns about its broad impact on US allies and businesses, most notably Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against whom the ICC had issued an arrest warrant.
If the U.S. president is charged with impeding an investigation, it could make nearly all international visits a headache and a risk.
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Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own reflections at the end of his two terms. He targeted the excesses of “state pride” which “may in time create mutual hostility… and foment…fatal divisions…”
The Trump administration is powering ahead with efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement, opening up the possibility of targeting migrants who entered through Biden-era programs and invoking an obscure immigration statute to make it easier to deputize state and local law enforcement to arrest and detain immigrants in the U.
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It has issued 32 unsealed arrest warrants. Those suspects range from Netanyahu and Putin to Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and Gamlet Guchmazov, accused of torture in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.
European officials had warned that the bill, prompted by an arrest warrant for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, would irreparably harm the institution.
The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.