'A Multitude of Sins': Federal Judge Blocks Last-Minute Trump Attempt to Wreck International Crimina

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Law and Crime

‘A Multitude of Sins’: Federal Judge Blocks Last-Minute Trump Attempt to Wreck International Criminal Court
COLIN KALMBACHERJan 5th, 2021, 1:57 pm

A federal judge in New York City dealt a severe blow to the outgoing Trump administration’s last-minute efforts to derail the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an opinion and order released late Monday.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, issued an injunction against President Donald Trump’s controversial June executive order sanctioning ICC prosecutors for investigating torture, rape and other war crimes allegedly committed by CIA officers and members of the U.S. military.

In a 34-page opinion and order, the judge determined that the Trump administration restrictions likely unconstitutionally “prohibit or chill” speech to a significant degree in order “to obtain and exert leverage” over ICC prosecutors “so as to induce [the ICC] to desist from their investigation of U.S. and allied personnel.”

Trump’s move, a reprisal action taken against the international tribunal after the ICC’s top prosecutor authorized an investigation into U.S. war crimes committed in Afghanistan during the co-called “Global War on Terrorism,” was heavily criticized at the time. Nearly 200 law professors, legal scholars and international lawyers penned an open letter calling on the White house to rescind those retaliatory sanctions–which were to be implemented under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

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[Me.]

1. How Could Just Our Objections Wreck The Court?

We're not in charge of the world though I don't doubt IT thinks so.

[PSPS]

2. one of trump's "executive orders" tried to impose sanctions on ICC prosecutors themselves

[Me.]

3. ON What Authority?

He has none, or even less, on the World Court I would think

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. He was going to prevent prosecutors and their families from entering the USA or using US banks

or owning assets in the USA. It's the kind of sanctions you impose on international criminals assumed to have stolen millions of dollars, not respected prosecutors. Targeting the families was particularly reminiscent of a mobster taking revenge.

On no authority, of course, other than believing himself above USA law.

[riversedge]

5. Good deal.

[ck4829]

6. K&R