The No. 2 Senate Republican plans to condemn the ICC for its embrace of ‘the legal fiction and the moral fraud that Israel violates human rights, that sovereignty doesn’t matter and that Israel has no right to defend itself.
They effectively blocked sanctions on an antisemitic International Criminal Court because it impacted those who enable it. Then they blamed the GOP.
Before you shuffle off the world stage in a stupor for the last time, 'Genocide Joe', let's review your legacy report card.
The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-led effort to advance legislation imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing concerns about its broad impact on US allies and businesses, most notably Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against whom the ICC had issued an arrest warrant.
President Joe Biden, who leaves office next week, announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, saying he has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any predecessor.
Joe Biden was photographed at Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C, on Monday.
It has issued 32 unsealed arrest warrants. Those suspects range from Netanyahu and Putin to Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and Gamlet Guchmazov, accused of torture in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.
European officials had warned that the bill, prompted by an arrest warrant for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, would irreparably harm the institution.
Senate Democrats revolted on Tuesday following the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze on federal aid by tanking a vote to sanction the International Criminal Court and promising there might be similar moves to come if the White House does not change its tune in short order.
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