Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with a 20-state coalition of state attorneys general, is strongly urging the United States Senate to pass the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, or the ICC Act. The legislation, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a bipartisan basis, deters the International Criminal Court from further efforts to assert unlawful authority. 

Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “The International Criminal Court proved that it has no interest in respecting the scope of its authority when it unlawfully sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant are merely defending their sovereign nation, Israel, from terrorists, and Israel is not party to the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute. The court’s actions set a dangerous precedent not just for our ally Israel but also for civilian and military leaders in the United States. The Senate must pass this important legislation to ensure that Americans will not be subject to the same unlawful prosecutions.”

In a letter to Senate leaders, Attorney General Moody and the coalition state, “On May 20, 2024, Karim A.A. Khan, the ICC prosecutor, announced that he was filing applications for arrest warrants against Yahya Sinwar and two other Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Israel since October 7, 2023…But in the same announcement, the ICC prosecutor also stated that he was filing applications for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He preposterously claimed that since October 8, 2023, Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against what he called the ‘State of Palestine,’ … The sole basis for the arrest warrants is the Rome Statute, which is the international treaty that established the International Criminal Court.”