WASHINGTON — The Trump administration slapped a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court with sanctions as the U.S. State Department continues to push back on the tribunal.

The State Department said Wednesday that Kimberly Prost was sanctioned for “ruling to authorize the ICC’s investigation into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.”

Prost has been a judge in the trial division since 2018, following a two-year stint as Chef de Cabinet for the ICC president, according to the tribunal’s website. Before joining the court, she was the first Ombudsperson for the United Nations Security Council Al Qaida Sanctions Committee.

She also worked for the Canadian Department of Justice for nearly two decades.

The State Department also took action against other ICC officials from France, Fiji and

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