The U.K. Foreign Office has advised several high-level barristers last week regarding the Trump administration imposing sanctions based on legal advice they rendered to the International Criminal Court in a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Trump signed Executive Order 14203, "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court," naming British lawyer and ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in its annex — the first barrister to face U.S. sanctions for advising in this case.
Should sanctions against more U.K. lawyers prove to be handed down, Amal, 47 — British citizen — could be stopped from entering the United States, where she owns property with husband George Clooney.