Four prominent American human rights organisations — the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute — have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's sanctions regime targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC, a Netherlands-based tribunal that prosecutes war crimes and crimes against humanity). The suit argues that a February 2025 executive order authorising sanctions against ICC officials, judges, and affiliated groups amounts to an unconstitutional attack on free speech and association, and violates US obligations under international law. The sanctions, which were escalated after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2024, have frozen bank accounts, imposed travel bans, and effectively forced some rights lawyers to halt their work before the court entirely.