Rubio Just Sanctioned the President of the International Criminal Court — and Promised to Dismantle It Brick by Brick

The constitutional argument Rubio keeps making is the right one. Americans fought a revolution specifically to be free from prosecution by foreign tribunals for “pretended offenses.” The Founders encoded that principle into the founding documents. The ICC — a court whose chief prosecutor is under sexual misconduct investigation, whose jurisdiction covers neither the United States nor Israel, and whose warrants carry zero legal weight in American courts — is attempting to resurrect exactly the arrangement the Declaration of Independence explicitly rejected.

Mamdani’s New York City was “actively exploring” whether the NYPD could serve an ICC warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu before the State Department intervened. The DSA platform calls for the United States to join the ICC. Abdul El-Sayed wants America to submit to international law as superseding U.S. law. These are not fringe positions — they are the stated goals of the party’s activist base.

Rubio’s response to all of it: sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and a promise of more to come.

“The ICC’s ability to target American nationals and those of other non-States Parties must end. The Trump Administration stands ready to take additional measures, if necessary, to systematically dismantle the ICC until it is incapable of threatening American sovereignty.” Brick by brick. They mean it.