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Takket

(23,721 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:08 PM Feb 28

Should the US rejoin the international criminal court?

If you aren’t familiar… we are not a member. Both Democrats and Republicans have denounced the ICC. You can read all about there here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

Assuming America is both allowed, and willing, to vote for a Democratic government in the future….

Should we rejoin the ICC?

If so, would we be allowed to turn over Trump and company to them for crimes against humanity, or would that violate their fifth amendment due process rights?

Or should we just let our own legal system deal with that? (The track record on that is… poor)

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Should the US rejoin the international criminal court? (Original Post) Takket Feb 28 OP
US was never a member... It did not ratify the treaty that created it.. hlthe2b Feb 28 #1
Trump could be turned over to the ICC even if the US wasn't a member. Fiendish Thingy Feb 28 #2
IF it could happen... 2naSalit Feb 28 #3
It SHOULD rejoin the ICC and sign the Rome Accords. DJ Synikus Makisimus Feb 28 #4

Fiendish Thingy

(23,281 posts)
2. Trump could be turned over to the ICC even if the US wasn't a member.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:10 PM
Feb 28

I don’t expect that to happen though.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,438 posts)
4. It SHOULD rejoin the ICC and sign the Rome Accords.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:36 PM
Feb 28

It won't though. That'd mean extraditing US Presidents (and probably others) to The Hague for trial. That could impact the AmeriKKKan elite's expansionist ambitions and exploitation of people and resources in faraway places. That, in turn, might negatively affect the rate of increase to their investment portfolios. The elite's rate of profit could decline by ENTIRE percentage points as well, and wealth increases of HUNDREDS of AmeriKKKa's elite members.* In AmeriKKKan society.the rich MUST get WAY richer, preferably by this time tomorrow, at great taxpayer expense.

Why does AmeriKKKa fight wars abroad? To protect AmeriKKKan interests abroad.
Whose interests? The elite's corporations and investments. It's not to protect tourists.

Of the elite, by the elite, for the elite. Call them oligarchs if you wish.

Also, eat the rich.

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*see Jeffrey Epstein's contacts for a partial list

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