Post #4000593
2026-07-22 01:08 UTC
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Except we literally are not signatories to the ICC and even if we wanted to, the Rome Statute requires that our justice system act in a way that is unconstitutional even if we had an enforcement agency tasked to do it.
It would violate the 5th, 6th and 14th amendments. It would also violate the presumption against extraterritoriality (or we'd have another colonial style 'International Settlement of Shanghai' situation), forcing us to essentially conduct an extraordinary rendition. The validity of a warrant not based on Article III powers would also give legitimacy to ICE's administrative BS. Arguably Gideon v Wainwright would also fail because frankly there's no competent counsel in our jurisdiction.
I hope our politics would go from wishcasting to reality. Please, if that's the strategy, send all such wishes to Arsenal FC. We might repeat the league, we definitely can't do anything like letting a fundamentally civil and partial and unconstitutional system take over for a sec. Trump's doing that already.
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@ug@brain.worm.pink 2026-07-22 21:32
@jimz@infosec.exchange @Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange your arguments are totally incoherent, there's nothing in the bill of rights that prohibits the signing of treaties or the decisions of courts in other countries -> the US has numerous extradition treaties, and even without that, it's well established precedent that notorious international criminals be turned over to external authorities like interpol etc.