Rights groups launch new legal challenge to Trump campaign against ICC

Four leading human rights groups have launched a new lawsuit against the Trump administration’s campaign against the International Criminal Court.The new lawsuit filed on Tuesday charges that the administration’s wide-ranging sanctions against the international tribunal and organisations that cooperate with it risk treading on the constitutional rights of US citizens and groups. It adds to several previous legal challenges making similar claims.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Netanyahu vows to go to New York City despite ICC arrest warrant, Mamdanilist 2 of 3Chad to join raft of withdrawals from International Criminal Courtlist 3 of 3What drove Venezuela’s decision to leave the ICC?end of listThe four US-based groups – The American Friends Service Committee, the Centre for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute – charge the sanctions “force them to curtail a wide range of human rights and legal work”. That, in turn, violates their constitutional rights, including their freedom of speech and their right to due process.The lawsuit further charges that Trump has exceeded his presidential authority “based on a pseudo ‘national emergency’...