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February 4, 2026

The American Campaign against the ICC Is Working

The institution can’t be reformed.

To Kyle Orton, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “a self-selecting cadre of ideologists who do not have and could not obtain democratic legitimacy,” which has nonetheless “claimed the right to remove and imprison the leaders of the democracies if [it] does not agree with their national-security policies.” Its hopeless bias against Israel, Orton writes, is symptomatic of even greater problems: 

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