Mastodawn

My favourite #NoKings sign so far

@Remittancegirl The ICC in The Hague only comes into play when it is impossible to have proper proceedings locally. I really hope that US won't be in that circumstance when some day things will turn for the better.
"The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely."
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

How the Court works

The crimes The Court's founding treaty, called the Rome Statute, grants the ICC jurisdiction over four main crimes.

International Criminal Court

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Madeleine Morris 1d ago

@lisettedeboer It was pretty clear that, for the four years Biden was President, the legal system in the US could not hold Trump to account.

Now I hope he will be labelled an international war criminal and tried if he sets foot in the country of a signatory.