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The Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republicans to advance the legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court, arguing that the bill had consequences for North -American allies and companies.
Republicans did not get the 60 votes needed to advance the bill, with the end of 54 to 45 to 45 years. The Democrats of the Senate had tried to negotiate a bipartisan commitment to the bill to protect the Allies of the United States and the North – of the ICC against Israel.
Senator John Fetterman (Pa.) Was the only Democrat who voted to move forward to the extent.
The vote set one of the first defeats of the GOP’s agenda in the Senate. Democrats last week also blocked that a “lively born” abortion bill would go to the upper chamber.
“The CPI bill is what I greatly support and would like to see the law,” said Senate’s minority leader, Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.), on the Senate floor before the vote.
“However, as much as I oppose the Bias of the CPI against Israel, as much as I want to see that the institution is reformed and remodeled dramatically, the bill in front of it is poorly written and deeply problematic.”
Republicans rejected the efforts of Senator Jeanne Shaheen (DN.H.) to change the language in the text that would exempt from sanctions to allies and North -American companies who do business with the court. Schumer said the change in language was a “small solution”.
“A bipartisan agreement is still very possible and we hope, and we urge our republican colleagues to sit with us and present a bill that addresses real problems in the CPI without adversely affecting North -American companies and our allies” , said Schumer.
Republicans of the Senate had tried to advance the legislation that approved the House earlier this month that would impose sanctions on officials, entities and individuals of the ICC that supported the court in retaliation for the search of the Court of investigations against Israel for crimes of war.
Last spring, the court issued detention mandates for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant for the crime of using hunger as a weapon of war, in the midst of the Israeli war against Hamas. The Gaza Strip, where more than 40,000 people have died. The court also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas’s military commander, Mohammed Deif, as head of the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel, killing 1,200 loved ones and taking 250 hostages.
Sanctions critics said they were a false equivalence between Hamas, designated as a terrorist group in the United States, the European Union and others, and Israel’s right to act in self -defense.
But the Democrats greatly opposed the republican efforts to sanction the court for their actions, saying that the language of the bill would prevent the United States or the Allies from being dedicated to court about other efforts for exact justice. of crimes and atrocities of war worldwide.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) He was the co-patriot of the Republican Leader of the Senate. Shaheen, the ranking member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, said he hoped to reach an agreement with Cotton to edit the language of this bill.
“I know we share most of the same concerns as it comes to writing the bill, but I think it is too wide, it is not written in a way that addresses the unique concerns we have with respect to the International Criminal Court,” She said, “she said..
Updated at 15:18
