• Skua@kbin.earth
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    4 days ago

    For what it’s worth, the act only authorises the president to command that to happen rather than requiring them to do so. It has a bunch of prohibitions on doing anything to facilitate the ICC, including on extraditing American citizens to get them on trial, but if he somehow does end up in the Hague then the then-president is 100% within their rights to just abandon him there

    Of course I don’t expect him to ever come close to winding up in the Hague in the first place. What a beautiful sight it would be if it did happen

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      They’d never do it. Plenty of war crimes have been done by Democratic-party run governments too. They don’t want to open that door, even if Trump’s warcrimes are 10x as bad and 100x as obvious.