In a move that places national sovereignty against the architecture of international accountability, the Trump administration has sanctioned two senior International Criminal Court officials — its president and a senior trial lawyer — accusing the tribunal of exercising authority over nations that never consented to its jurisdiction. The action, taken under Executive Order 14203, is less a legal dispute than a philosophical one: whether any supranational body may hold power over citizens of a nation that has refused to grant it. The administration has framed this not as a final gesture but as