The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

A federal judge on Friday handed down a ruling partially blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court. In February, Trump issued an order targeting the ICC due to accusations of anti-U.

A federal judge blocked on Friday the enforcement of US President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting those who work with the International Criminal Court. The ruling follows an April lawsuit by two human rights advocates challenging Trump’s February 6 order authorizing potentially far-reaching economic and travel sanctions on people who work on ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies,

US federal judge blocks President Trump's executive order imposing sanctions on those aiding ICC investigations, calling it an unconstitutional breach of free speech.

The ruling follows an April lawsuit by two human rights advocates challenging Trump's February 6 order authorizing potentially far-reaching economic and travel sanctions on people who work on ICC investigations of U.

Federal Judge Joseph LaPlante has issued a preliminary injunction preventing President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.