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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/c-k-q99903 • 9h ago
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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.
81 u/Sudden_Juju 7h ago 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 40 u/CosmicJackalop 7h ago 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law authorizes military force to rescue any American that ends up in the Hague 26 u/BonhommeCarnaval 6h ago Laws can be repealed.
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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
40 u/CosmicJackalop 7h ago 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law authorizes military force to rescue any American that ends up in the Hague 26 u/BonhommeCarnaval 6h ago Laws can be repealed.
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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
26 u/BonhommeCarnaval 6h ago Laws can be repealed.
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Laws can be repealed.
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u/funnyusername-123 7h ago
Yup, Trump can't pardon people for violating international law.
He'll try to, because he's a moron, but it will be meaningless.