Senate Republicans are recommending President Trump issue an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its pursuit of war crimes cases against Israel, after Senate
John Fetterman is lone Democrat to vote to advance bill, which House already approved; GOP lawmakers now likely need to resume compromise talks in order to overcome filibuster The post Senate Democrats block legislation to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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.
UN experts have warned that US sanctions over Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest warrant would erode international order.
They effectively blocked sanctions on an antisemitic International Criminal Court because it impacted those who enable it. Then they blamed the GOP.
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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Joe Biden’s Indictment
The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.
Before you shuffle off the world stage in a stupor for the last time, 'Genocide Joe', let's review your legacy report card.
President Joe Biden, who leaves office next week, announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, saying he has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any predecessor.
Joe Biden was photographed at Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C, on Monday.
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…”
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.