The State Department announced a new round of sanctions against employees of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday in response to that institution’s accusations of human rights abuses and international crime against Israel and the United States.

In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the ICC, to which neither Israel nor the United States belong, a “national security threat” for attempting to prosecute outside of its jurisdiction. The ICC is a world court established by the Rome Statute, with authority over Rome Statute signatories (neither America nor Israel has signed onto the document). The court has the power…

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