2 days ago · Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted to filibuster a GOP-led bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials. The measure was designed to punish the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for top ...

2 days ago · Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republicans from advancing legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing the bill had sweeping consequences on allies and American ...

2 days ago · Washington — Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican-led measure that would sanction the International Criminal Court, arguing that the bill as written would backfire on U.S. allies and ...

2 days ago · WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime ...

2 days ago · A bill to impose sanctions on officials affiliated with the International Criminal Court stalled in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrats refused to back it, a setback for legislation that aims to ...

2 days ago · Washington, DC – Democrats in the United States Senate have blocked the passage of a bill that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its issuance of arrest warrants for ...

2 days ago · Senate Democrats blocked a bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court on Tuesday after Republicans rejected changes addressing their concerns.. Why it matters: The vote is a show of unity from Senate Democrats and is their first concrete action since President Trump's inauguration to thwart the GOP agenda.. The vote was 54-45, short of the 60 votes required to prevail.

2 days ago · The United States was instrumental in establishing the International Criminal Court to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide when domestic justice systems fail to act. That is a key limitation which the ICC’s critics—including Senate Republicans—often neglect to acknowledge: the ICC does not supplant the courts of ...

1 day ago · The International Criminal Court has found itself without a single trial ahead for the first time in years. ... has passed one chamber of Congress but is stalled in the Senate for now due to opposition from Democrats. The previous prosecutor, Gambian Fatou Bensouda, described being the subject of “thug-style tactics” while she was in office

3 days ago · The bill instructs the U.S. president to impose sanctions within 60 days on anyone who “has directly engaged in or otherwise aided any effort by the International Criminal Court to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute” U.S. citizens or the citizens of U.S. allies not party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, including Israel.