A federal judge sitting in Manhattan this week barred the Trump administration from enforcing sanctions on two U.S. citizens and law professors who work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On April 15, Cardozo Law Professor Gabor Rona and CUNY School of Law Professor Lisa Davis filed a 31-page lawsuit against President Donald Trump and several other members of the federal government over a February executive order that imposes sanctions on the ICC, prohibits certain interactions with designated ICC officials, and threatens both civil and criminal penalties for any such violations.
The lawsuit says Trump's order "threatens to unconstitutionally impose civil and criminal penalties" on the plaintiffs "for providing education, advice, training, information, analysis, and other servi