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Marco Rubio: “The ICC was merely a narrow backstop...only when a nation's…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Secretary Rubio Pledges Defense of American Sovereignty Against the International Criminal Court

Published | Video Starts at 00:48

When the ICC was born 24 years ago, they told us that it was merely a narrow backstop. A global court that would step in to prosecute only The ICC was merely a narrow backstop...only when a nation's courts were unable to prosecute them on their own. But the truth is, it was something far more radical and extreme. It was a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited. (00:48–00:54)

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Asserts that the ICC was intended to prosecute grave offenses only when national courts could not.

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