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by teakettle42 1560 days ago
That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute.
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> That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state

The ICC only has authority in territories where a sovereign state grants them authority. Hence the act, a threat to invade a sovereign state if that sovereign state follows the legal process they've legally decided (by signing the Rome statute) and prosecute an American citizen

> and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute.

Cases that the sovereign state defers to the ICC as their established legal process.