June 26, 2020

Donald Trump
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

On behalf of 174 American lawyers and legal scholars with experience in the fields of international law
and national security, we are honored to forward a Statement urging you to rescind your Executive
Order 13928 of June 11, 2020. Among other provisions, your Order authorizes asset freezes and visa
denials against investigators and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) involved in the
investigation of alleged war crimes by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Statement argues that such sanctions are “wrong in principle, contrary to American values, and
prejudicial to U.S. national security.”

Sincerely,

Douglass Cassel Stephen Rapp

Emeritus Professor of Law Former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
Notre Dame Law School 219 Highland Blvd.
274 Montgomery Street Waterloo, Iowa 50703
Newburgh, New York 12550

Leila Sadat Jennifer Trahan

James Carr Professor of Clinical Professor and
International Criminal Law Director of the Concentration in International Law
Director, Whitney R. Harris and Human Rights
World Law Institute NYU Center for Global Affairs
Washington University School of Law Woolworth Building, 4th Floor
Campus Box 1120 15 Barclay Street
One Brookings Drive New York, New York 10007
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Encl: Statement “Against Sanctions on ICC Investigators of Atrocities”

Cc: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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Cc: Attorney General William Barr
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin
Ambassador Morse Tan, Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Dept. of State
Acting Legal Adviser Marik String, U.S. Dept. of State
Signatories to the Statement