US-based rights groups sue Trump admin over ICC sanctions

Four quality rights groups successful the United States person sued the Trump medication for “illegally sanctioning” individuals and organizations affiliated with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The suit was filed successful the Southern District of New York connected August 11 by the American Friends Service Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and Open Society Institute.

The plaintiffs are challenging President Donald Trump’s enforcement order, which authorized sanctions connected ICC officials, judges, and others moving with the Hague-based court.

The organisations described the enactment arsenic an “illegal attack” connected planetary justness and should beryllium struck down, arsenic it hinders a wide scope of quality rights and ineligible work.

They noted that, by extension, the sanctions tally antagonistic to the provisions of First and Fifth Amendment rights nether the US Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The suit argues that the sanctions imposed connected February 6, 2025, transcend the president’s powers and are based connected a “pseudo nationalist exigency that has nary ground successful fact.”

Lead counsel Andrew Loewenstein said the rallying and litigation by aggregate bodies demonstrates the order’s disruption to ineligible efforts to bring those liable for sedate crimes to justice.

“The plaintiffs are seek...