{"id":769872,"date":"2026-07-18T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769872\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:57:09","slug":"us-takes-aim-at-the-international-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769872\/","title":{"rendered":"US takes aim at the International Criminal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> has long resisted joining the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/international-criminal-court-icc\/t-17448589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Criminal Court<\/a>, and has even sanctioned some of its judges, but this\u00a0latest push marks a dramatic escalation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/marco-rubio\/t-73598020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a>\u00a0has claimed\u00a0the court threatens US military and law enforcement operations, and undermines its sovereignty. But that&#8217;s contrary to the reality of how it operates, according to Harvard Law School professor Alex Whiting, who spoke with DW&#8217;s Ben Fajzullin.<\/p>\n<p>Despite earlier criticism of the court for focusing on cases from African nations, Whiting said the ICC is now playing a vital role in upholding justice in many places where <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/human-rights\/t-17455099\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human rights<\/a> are being abused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington has long resisted joining the International Criminal Court, and has even sanctioned some of its judges, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-769872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}