Should the US join the International Criminal Court at the Hague?

[kentuck]

Last edited Sat May 9, 2026, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)

Perhaps the next Attorney General can request that some individuals be indicted and tried in front of the International Court?

Does the United States need UN observers at our election sites?

Surely there is some accountability somewhere?

https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/the-court

[SSJVegeta]

1. This admin has already been taking steps to protect itself from a pitential ICC prosecution

...even they know it is inevitable.

[leftieNanner]

3. Buh Bye

[Sowhat13]

4. Yes, we should rejoin the ICC. And yes, there should be prosecutions.

[hedda_foil]

7. The United States can't rejoin as it has never been a member of the ICC in the first place.

[Sympthsical]

5. The US was never a part of the ICC

Clinton signed the treaty, but the Senate never ratified it. Then W. Bush withdrew the signature. Obama had us there as an observer for a bit. Trump's actively against it.

You'd have to get the Senate to agree to its sovereignty, which is not a thing that is liable to happen any time soon.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. The US was never part of the ICC

Clinton signed onto the Rome Statute but it was never ratified by the Senate and never took effect. Bush unsigned it and then Congress passed a law the specifically forbids cooperation with the ICC, cuts military funding to allies that are part of the ICC unless separate agreements are met with the US, forbids extradition, and reinforces that the US does not recognize ICC jurisdiction over US personnel or citizens.

[kentuck]

8. Thanks!

edited.

[OLDMDDEM]

9. Yes.

[SamKnause]

10. We should but we won't.

The U.S. does not want to be held accountable.