In a sustained campaign against an institution it never joined, the United States has frozen the assets of the International Criminal Court's president and a senior trial lawyer, targeting the court's pursuit of Israeli and American officials. The Trump administration frames the move as a defense of sovereignty, yet the candor with which it names the protection of specific foreign leaders reveals something older and more troubling: the use of financial power to discipline the law itself. At stake is not merely one court's survival, but the question of whether international accountability can e