Mike Pence: “I appreciate his efforts and his diligence in defending our men and women in uniform who, but for this amendment, might…”

“I appreciate his efforts and his diligence in defending our men and women in uniform who, but for this amendment, might be subject to arbitrary and capricious actions of rogue nations bent on perverting the International Criminal Court. None other than President George Washington warned his posterity about certain relations with foreign governments that might put liberty at risk. The system of law that is likely to be practiced in the ICC is outside of our Constitution and our rule of law. It does violence to the very common law that is our inheritance. There is little doubt that the framers of the Constitution would reject this peculiar foreign legal system outright as a form of tyranny. The notion that our citizens, men and women in uniform, would be subject to the whims of a foreign court is anathema to the principles of the American founding. American citizens and their military personnel should never be subject to laws not created by the American people. The fear voiced by George Washington must control our debate today.”