2 days ago · Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republicans from advancing legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing the bill had sweeping consequences on allies and American ...

2 days ago · Washington — Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican-led measure that would sanction the International Criminal Court, arguing that the bill as written would backfire on U.S. allies and ...

2 days ago · Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted to filibuster a GOP-led bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials. The measure was designed to punish the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for top Israeli officials. The court issued those warrants last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

2 days ago · WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister ...

2 days ago · Senate Democrats blocked a bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court on Tuesday after Republicans rejected changes addressing their concerns.. Why it matters: The vote is a show of unity from Senate Democrats and is their first concrete action since President Trump's inauguration to thwart the GOP agenda.. The vote was 54-45, short of the 60 votes …

2 days ago · The United States was instrumental in establishing the International Criminal Court to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide when domestic justice systems fail to act. That is a key limitation which the ICC’s critics—including Senate Republicans—often neglect to acknowledge: the ICC does not supplant the courts of ...

2 days ago · Washington, DC – Democrats in the United States Senate have blocked the passage of a bill that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its issuance of arrest warrants for ...

3 days ago · US Senate blocks bill to sanction International Criminal Court ... U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives members attend a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's election, at ...

1 day ago · The International Criminal Court has found itself without a single trial ahead for the first time in years. ... has passed one chamber of Congress but is stalled in the Senate for now due to opposition from Democrats. The previous prosecutor, Gambian Fatou Bensouda, described being the subject of “thug-style tactics” while she was in office

3 days ago · WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in opposition to the partisan legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), highlighted her tireless efforts to come up with a bipartisan compromise to hold the ICC accountable for its actions …