Trump administration prepares sanctions against International Criminal Court, sources say

The Trump administration is set to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to sources familiar with the decision. The sanctions would target the entire organization and any entities that cooperate with it, potentially causing significant disruption to the court's work. US officials have long expressed contempt for the ICC, which prosecutes war crimes and genocide globally.

The administration has already taken steps to undermine the court, including lobbying other nations to withdraw from the tribunal and imposing sanctions on individual ICC judges and prosecutors. The State Department has not yet commented on the imminent sanctions, which could be announced as early as this week during the United Nations General Assembly meeting.

If enacted, entity-wide sanctions would prohibit US citizens and companies from providing financial support to the ICC without a license from the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, potentially affecting operations such as purchasing IT services, hiring investigators, and paying American employees. The ICC, established in 2002, aims to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, but the United States has never been a member.