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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’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.

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.

A federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship spent more than an hour Friday grappling with whether his nationwide injunction could stand after the Supreme Court curbed the ability of judges to issue such broad rulings.

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.