President Trump on Monday signed the “Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions Executive Order,” among them former President Biden’s Executive Order 14022 of April 1, 2021, titled, “Termination of Emergency with Respect to the International Criminal Court”
The 2021 executive order read, “I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, find that, *although the United States continues to object to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) assertions of jurisdiction over personnel of such non-States Parties as the United States and its allies absent their consent or referral by the United Nations Security Council, and will vigorously protect current and former United States personnel from any attempts to exercise such jurisdiction* – the threat and imposition of financial sanctions against the Court, its personnel, and those who assist it are not an effective or appropriate strategy for addressing the United States’ concerns with the ICC.”
Biden asserted that “Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13928 of June 11, 2020 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated with the International Criminal Court), and revoke that order.”
On September 2, 2020, the United States government imposed sanctions on ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and senior prosecution official Phakiso Mochochoko. Additionally, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced restrictions on visas to certain unnamed individuals involved in the ICC’s efforts to investigate US personnel.