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Cate Brown

Ilhan Omar introduces resolution urging US to join international criminal court

a woman wearing a headscarf and a gray blazer speaks into a microphone
The Democratic US representative Ilhan Omar speaks at the Capitol in Washington DC on 13 January 2026. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

The Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution on Wednesday urging the United States to join the international criminal court (ICC), marking the first congressional pushback against the Trump administration’s pledge to “systematically disable” the war crimes tribunal through sanctions and diplomatic pressure.

Omar’s bill came two days after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, vowed to dismantle the court.

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