Ms. Prost was at home, standing in her kitchen, when the call came informing she was being sanctioned. It wasn’t a complete surprise, given that many of her colleagues had already been sanctioned, she said during an interview….

Within hours, she said, she had received a message from Amazon canceling her accounts. Before long, Google & her banks got in touch. Over the following days, credit cards ceased to work.

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Legally, the cases are different. Ms. Albanese, who only submitted information to the #ICC, challenged the #sanctions against her on #FirstAmendment grounds.

The lawsuit filed on Wednesday is intended, in part, to push back on what the #judges believe is the punitive way in which the #Trump admin is using sanctions.

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…This challenge, if it works, could build on another case, one involving Francesca Albanese, a #UnitedNations official appointed to report on #HumanRights in the #WestBank & #Gaza.

This year, a #US federal judge temporarily blocked the #Trump admin’s #sanctions against Ms. Albanese for her contributions to the #ICC case against #Israel, though an appeals court later halted the injunction while the case is pending.

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The suit also argues that the #State & #Treasury Depts violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits decisions that are “arbitrary & capricious.” These #sanctions fall into that category, according to the lawsuit, which argues that the State Dept has not even shown that the #judges fall within the category of people against whom sanctions have been authorized.

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If successful, the lawsuit could curb the #US government’s ability to use #sanctions to punish #judges for making rulings it disagrees with.

Ms. Prost is joined in the suit by Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou from Benin & Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa from Uganda. A copy of the newly filed complaint was provided to The New York Times by one of the judge's lawyers.

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