In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.
Of which the US is not a signatory.
And they wrote a law basically admitting they would invade The Hague to prevent any US politicians or soldiers being prosecuted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act
The US sure sounds like a place full of lawless motherfuckers that only serve to protect themselves.
Laws like this, where they basically refuse any sort of accountability to the international community, are literally why the International Criminal Court exists. Because it’s way too easy for governments to just write laws that say “What we did wasn’t illegal, because we wrote this law that made it legal.”
What a lawless hellhole.
Precisely why it should be the ICC prosecuting. If a US official or dignitary was apprehended abroad and taken to the ICC to face charges the US would be forced to show it’s hand on the matter, then progress can happen in whatever manner is necessary from there.
Agreed, my point was simply that the US isn’t party to the ICC, and has no intent to be, precisely because they don’t want it validly turned against them.