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		JimBlackwood 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC pr... How is it a threat to American sovereignty? It has no jurisdiction in America, only within nations that are party to the treaty - which is their sovereign right? Is a foreign nation convicting an American tourist for crimes in said nation also a threat to American sovereignty?

layer8 7 months ago [–]

It has juridiction when referred to by the UN Security Council, and possibly other cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute#Jurisdiction,_str...

JimBlackwood 7 months ago | [–]

Thanks, I didn’t know this!

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