Marco Rubio addressed the Federalist Society and explained that men with swords need not listen to laws. A bold continuing-education program for lawyers: retrain as cutlery.
The secretary of state attacked the International Criminal Court on Friday and suggested force if it tried to enforce rulings against Americans. Quoting Pompey, he offered: “Stop quoting laws to men with swords.” The United States is not an ICC member and rejects its authority over Americans.
Rubio accused the court and its allies of appointing themselves judge, jury and executioner of the international order. The executioner part is his rhetoric. The judge part is an especially promising discovery about a court.
Its members include every EU country and every NATO country except the United States and Turkey. This supposedly alien global bureaucracy includes most of America’s military allies. Apparently they’re trustworthy in an alliance, but get them a courthouse and they become suspicious foreigners.
New US sanctions designed to impede the court take effect in April unless an agreement averts them.
No foreign institution may tell Americans what to do.
The foreign institution has until April to comply.
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