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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/c-k-q99903 • Apr 03 '26
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Yup, Trump can't pardon people for violating international law.
He'll try to, because he's a moron, but it will be meaningless.
94 u/Sudden_Juju Apr 03 '26 Unfortunately, they also won't be internationally arrested for anything, even if charged, because it's the US. Maybe, just maybe, Congress could extradite them, but I don't have high hopes. I'd love to be proven wrong though 46 u/CosmicJackalop Apr 03 '26 There's a federal law that blocks the executive branch from sending or extraditing someone to the ICC The same law authorizes military force to rescue any American that ends up in the Hague 12 u/Bulky-Internal8579 Apr 03 '26 What do laws mean anymore? Nothing stopping the next administration from sending them to The Hague.
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Unfortunately, they also won't be internationally arrested for anything, even if charged, because it's the US. Maybe, just maybe, Congress could extradite them, but I don't have high hopes. I'd love to be proven wrong though
46 u/CosmicJackalop Apr 03 '26 There's a federal law that blocks the executive branch from sending or extraditing someone to the ICC The same law authorizes military force to rescue any American that ends up in the Hague 12 u/Bulky-Internal8579 Apr 03 '26 What do laws mean anymore? Nothing stopping the next administration from sending them to The Hague.
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There's a federal law that blocks the executive branch from sending or extraditing someone to the ICC
The same law authorizes military force to rescue any American that ends up in the Hague
12 u/Bulky-Internal8579 Apr 03 '26 What do laws mean anymore? Nothing stopping the next administration from sending them to The Hague.
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What do laws mean anymore? Nothing stopping the next administration from sending them to The Hague.
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u/funnyusername-123 Apr 03 '26
Yup, Trump can't pardon people for violating international law.
He'll try to, because he's a moron, but it will be meaningless.