Professor Milena Sterio was cited in two media articles about the threat of U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal Court by the new Trump Administration.  First, Professor Sterio was cited in an article entitled “Can the ICC Survive the U.S. Sanctions? (Part I)” (available here: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/140459-can-the-icc-survive-the-u-s-sanctions-part-1.html). This article discusses the fact that the Trump Administration is most likely going to impose sanctions against the ICC, because of the Court’s investigation and issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.  Professor Sterio was quoted in this article twice.  First, she was quoted explaining the attitude of various U.S. presidential administrations vis-a-vis the Court: 

“I think it’s more of a yo-yo,” says Milena Sterio, professor of Law at Cleveland State University. “When you look at the U.S. relationship with the Court starting back in 1998, things have gone back and forth with different presidential administrations, with basically the Democrat administrations being a lot more supportive of the Court,” she says, adding : “We’ve seen that under the Biden administration, which was willing to support the court on the Ukraine investigation, for example. The Obama administration similarly was supportive of the court in limited ways. And then, we’ve seen, for example, the Bush administration very hostile to the court, negotiating these bilateral agreements with other countries left and right to make sure that they wouldn’t extradite anybody to the court. And then the peak of the hostility obviously is with the Trump administration.”

Second, Professor Sterio was quoted extensively about her role as co-plaintiff in a lawsuit which had challenged the first Trump Administration’s imposition of sanctions against the ICC back in 2020 (Professor Sterio and her co-plaintiffs were successful in their lawsuit as they won a preliminary injunction against the first Trump Administration in early 2021; the first Trump Administration’s sanctions were revoked by the Biden Administration in 2021 and the lawsuit was dismissed).  Here is one of Professor Sterio’s quotes:

“Sterio is one of a small group who challenged the order in 2020 through a federal court. ‘All of us generally believed that imposing sanctions against the ICC is not just ridiculous, but threatens this entire world of international criminal justice, because it inhibits the Court’s ability to function freely,” she says. “It improperly tries to influence the Court into dropping certain investigations. And instead of the United States positioning itself as a leader in international criminal justice, it actually puts the U.S. at the opposite end of the spectrum, where we’re really doing everything to inhibit the court.’”

Second, Professor Sterio was quoted in a subsequent article entitled “Can the ICC Survive the U.S. Sanctions? (Part II)” (available here: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/140499-can-the-icc-survive-the-u-s-sanctions-part-2.html).