https://pressclub.us/tags/international-law/ Recent content in international law on Press Club US Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/the-case-against-icc-jurisdiction-over-american-citizens/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/the-case-against-icc-jurisdiction-over-american-citizens/ The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. It signed, then unsigned, and has spent two decades constructing a legal and diplomatic wall against the institution the statute created. The current confrontation — sanctions on court officials, visa bans, statutory authorization to extract Americans held at The Hague — is not an improvisation. It is the enforcement phase of a position Washington has held since 2002. That position rests on four arguments.