{"id":76161,"date":"2026-07-16T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/why-does-the-us-want-to-dismantle-the-international-criminal-court-kenneth-roth\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:54:55","slug":"why-does-the-us-want-to-dismantle-the-international-criminal-court-kenneth-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/why-does-the-us-want-to-dismantle-the-international-criminal-court-kenneth-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the US want to \u2018dismantle\u2019 the international criminal court? | Kenneth Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio has offered nonsensical rationale in attacking the court. The Trump administration\u2019s real goal is impunity<\/p>\n<p>With the pointless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/18\/trump-iran-war-deal\">war of choice<\/a> in Iran going poorly, the Trump administration has declared a virtual war on the international criminal court (ICC). Secretary of state, Marco Rubio, vowed on Monday to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/07\/state-department-launches-campaign-to-dismantle-international-criminal-courts-threat-to-american-sovereignty\/\">dismantle<\/a>\u201d the court as a supposed threat to US sovereignty. His rationale is laced with sophistry. The administration\u2019s real goal is to secure impunity for war crimes, even those committed on the territory of ICC member states.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/why-were-dismantling-the-icc-0af0a8a6\">op-ed<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecRubio\/status\/2076671740407652582\">video<\/a> posted on X, Rubio conjures up a dystopia in which local American officials such as police officers or border patrol agents \u201ccould be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe, found guilty under international laws we neither consent to nor control, and then imprisoned thousands of miles from America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/16\/international-criminal-court-marco-rubio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio has offered nonsensical rationale in attacking the court. The Trump administration\u2019s real goal is impunity With the pointless war of choice in Iran going poorly, the Trump administration has declared a virtual war on the international criminal court (ICC). Secretary of state, Marco Rubio, vowed on Monday to \u201cdismantle\u201d the court as a &#8230; <a title=\"Why does the US want to \u2018dismantle\u2019 the international criminal court? | Kenneth Roth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/why-does-the-us-want-to-dismantle-the-international-criminal-court-kenneth-roth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why does the US want to \u2018dismantle\u2019 the international criminal court? | Kenneth Roth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}