Why is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?

Washington’s sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) came hours aft 1 of its erstwhile judges, Navi Pillay, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize connected Friday.

The ICC was founded successful 2002 to prosecute warfare crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

It has issued apprehension warrants against much than 70 people, including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The US has denounced the tribunal successful the past, particularly aft it issued the apprehension warrants for Israeli officials.

Washington has antecedently imposed sanctions connected its prosecutors and judges, but the latest determination seeks to cripple the operations of the court, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Why is the US truthful against the ICC? And volition Europe defy Washington and support the court?

Presenter: Sami Zeidan

Guests:

Reed Brody – International quality rights lawyer and subordinate of the International Commission of Jurists, who participated successful the 1998 Rome league that created the ICC and has helped prosecute immoderate of the world’s high-profile defendants

Nathalie Tocci – Professor of signifier astatine Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe and a erstwhile peculiar advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell

Suhail Khan – Republican governmental analyst, erstwhile elder governmental appointee with the Bush medication and a erstwhile argumentation advisor and counsel connected Capitol Hill