The International Criminal Court is working alongside several organizations and individuals tied to terrorism as it seeks to prosecute American and Israeli personnel for war crimes, according to a new report…
by Brett Schaefer • The Daily Signal National security adviser John Bolton didn’t mince words in a speech on Monday as he outlined U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court.…
Below are several excerpts from Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech as well as some video of the intense, perhaps pivotal moment in Africa’s complicated relationship with the International Criminal Court……
“The specter of a government pursuing investigations and prosecutions of the former regime while blatantly ignoring—or worse, covering up—its own crimes and misdeeds will very likely deepen mistrust across the…
You’re like the surgeon who comes to a patient, the patient dies, and you’re saying, “But it was a great operation! We did a great job!” But the patient died. —…
A couple years back the Pulitzer Prize-winning “fact-checking” site PolitiFact assembled a panel of experts to debunk the claim, laid out in a chain email, that President Barack Obama “wants the…
Back in October International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda submitted a nine page missive to the pre-trial chamber seeking to establish a December 31, 2015 deadline for South Africa…
So. The book most often checked out of the United Nations members’ library is a tome on, as Vox put it, “how to be immune from war crimes prosecution.” Which…
A couple weeks back we asked whether it might be time for the U.S. to start worrying about the International Criminal Court — an institution that not only sees few if any real…
Harold Koh — current Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and former Legal Adviser to U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2013 — and Todd Buchwald…
Lawfare Tyranny A few weeks back we noted Kenyan “human rights activist” Ken Wafula dramatically recanted his support of the International Criminal Court’s pursuit of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto after…
Lawfare Tyranny If you’ve ventured out into the social media deluge over the last few days chances are you’ve seen your environmental activism-inclined friends and acquaintances post one of many articles with screaming headlines…
Lawfare Tyranny International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda was recently asked by Yahoo! News, “What is the biggest challenge [the Court faces] in 2016?” Her response is instructive: “There is…
Lawfare Tyranny A couple weeks ago we noted The Washington Times had launched its Ronald Reagan Thought Leadership Series at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California with an…
Lawfare Tyranny A scholar at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation who a few months back declared the International Criminal Court an “important institution” that should be given enough power to cause…