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> Additionally, sovereign states are already free to prosecute anyone within their borders. Not without being invaded by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• teakettle42 5y ago
  That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute.
  • monocasa 5y ago
    > That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state The ICC only has authority in territories where a sovereign state grants them authority. Hence the act, a threat to invade a sovereign state if that sovereign state follows the legal process they've legally decided (by signing the Rome statute) and prosecute an American citizen > and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute. Cases that the sovereign state defers to the ICC as their established legal process.