(...) JUDGES CHALLENGE LEGAL BASIS

The lawsuit ⁠argues that the sanctions were against the law as they exceeded the scope of IEEPA and were not based on a genuine national emergency or extraordinary threat. "The Sanctions Regime ... is designed to exert extra-judicial pressure ​on these judges and their colleagues on the ICC bench by targeting their financial and other ​personal interests, with ⁠the objective of punishing them for prior judicial decisions and coercing them into prioritizing their private interests over deciding cases on the basis of the law and facts," the lawsuit said." (...)