In a move that reaches beyond legal procedure into the language of national identity, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sanctioned the president of the International Criminal Court and one of its senior lawyers, continuing a deliberate campaign to wall off American citizens from the court's jurisdiction. The immediate provocation was the ICC's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the deeper argument — invoking the Declaration of Independence itself — frames the conflict as a question of who holds the right to judge a sovereign people. The United States, which has