Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, together with video and press statements, that the United States would be undertaking an effort to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC), “brick by brick if necessary.” We and others responded to this statement here.

The separate purpose of this article is to address the specific statements in the op-ed (quoted in italics below). Writing from our positions as international law scholars, we address some of the factual claims or underlying assumptions in the article in a way that we hope will be helpful for the public, journalists, and others seeking to make sense of this announcement.

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