There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
The world is a penal institution.
I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.