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 organizations that cooperate with it risk treading on the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and groups. It adds to several previous legal challenges making similar claims.
The four U.S.-based groups — The American Friends Service Committee, the Center 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’ that has no basis in fact”, according to a Human Rights Watch statement.
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