Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing the Trump administration to dismantle the International Criminal Court, arguing it interferes with U.S. military and law enforcement operations — but legal experts say he's mischaracterizing the court's actual jurisdiction. The administration is now escalating pressure through threatened sanctions, visa bans, and diplomatic efforts to get other countries to withdraw from the ICC. This matters because the ICC has indicated it could investigate U.S. military actions in the Caribbean and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, both of which touch on the court's jurisdiction. What's not in the headline: the EU has already formally objected to U.S. threats against the court, and Venezuela's ICC membership is precisely why American operations there fall within the tribunal's scope.