Unless the ICC's serious flaws are addressed fully, President Obama should  continue to insist that the U.S. is not bound by the Rome Statute and exercise  great care when deciding to support thecourt's actions. The Obama  Administration should not "re-sign" theRome Statute or take any other steps that  would weaken ...
A couple years back the Pulitzer Prize-winning “fact-checking” site PolitiFact  assembled a panel of experts to debunk the claim, laid out in a chain email, that  President Barack Obama “wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.'s International  Criminal Court.” From the final paragraph: While the Obama administration has  been ...
Upon signing the London Agreement creating the basis for and existence of the  International Military Tribunal, Jackson stated: “For the first time, four of the most  powerful nations [U.S., France, Great Britain, Soviet Union] have agreed not only  upon the principle of liability for war crimes of persecution, but also upon the ...
Jan 27, 2017 ... A U.S. presidential executive order targeting the United Nations and other  international organizations could inflict a major blow to global development ... It  calls for a special review of funding for the International Criminal Court, for  example, even though the U.S. is not — nor has ever been — a member of ...
September 20, 2013 • The U.S. is supposed to allow everyone to come to the  annual United Nations General Assembly, which opens next week. But  Washington has yet to rule on the visa application by Omar al-Bashir, the  Sudanese president who's been indicted on genocide charges by the  International Criminal Court.
The President wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.’s International Criminal Court.