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Trump Sanctions Entire ICC, Drawing Rebuke From US Allies
Haley Fuller
October 9, 2026

The Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, expanding restrictions against individual officials into financial measures targeting the institution. Eight U.S. allies jointly rebuked the decision, exposing a divide over protecting military personnel from potential international prosecution and preserving accountability for atrocities. The U.S. Treasury Department added the Hague-based court to its sanctions list under President Donald Trump’s 2025 sanctions order. The ICC said the designation follows sanctions against 13 court officials. “We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in his announcement. Rubio also warned: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” It freezes the court’s assets held in the United States or controlled by U.S. citizens, permanent residents or businesses, and generally bars them from doing business with the court unless an exception applies. READ MORE

FREE PRESS Douglas Murray: The International Criminal Court Is a Sham Recent years have seen a flourishing of BS institutions. There is the International Association of Genocide Scholars, an organization that suddenly leaped to prominence last year when it was reactivated in order to accuse Israel of “genocide” in Gaza; there is the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a politicized pseudo-court that seems determined to fast-track that same genocide allegation; there is the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose only standing agenda item devoted to a single country is, yes, about the Jewish state; and the list goes on. But the institution that must win any and all awards for not being what it says on the tin is the International Criminal Court (ICC).