The State Department announced sanctions against four ICC officials over their actions against Americans and Israelis. The ICC denounced the sanctions as an attack on the court's independence.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sharply criticized new US sanctions targeting four of its judges and prosecutors.

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the International Criminal Court for pursuing investigations into US and Israeli officials for alleged war crimes. The State Department on Wednesday (Aug 20) announced new sanctions on four ICC officials,

The U.S. sanctioned two of the court’s deputy prosecutors as well as two judges, a French jurist and Kimberly Prost, a University of Manitoba graduate who spent nearly two decades with Justice Canada before moving overseas.

That’s a worthy cause, but it misjudges the stakes. This is a matter of American self-defense. One sanctioned judge, Canada’s Kimberly Prost, authorized an ICC investigation into the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Launched in 2020 to investigate the prior 17 ...