Amal Clooney and others could be denied entry into us under Trump sanctions: Report

• According to reports, several top lawyers from the United Kingdom, including the human rights activists Amal Clooney, were warned that President Donald Trump could announce sanctions against them.
• The sanctions would advise for the lawyers who advise the International Criminal Court in a crime against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
• If sanctions against Amal – a British citizen – are handed over, she could be prevented from getting to the United States, where she shares ownership with husband George Clooney and her two children.

According to reports, several leading British lawyers, including Amal Clooney, warned, were reported to receive sanctions from President Donald Trump, who could influence their ability to enter the United States.

The Finance times Last week, the British Foreign Office reported several high -ranking lawyers because of legal advice, which it gave the International Criminal Court in a crime against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to the Israeli Minister of Defense of Israel.

In February, Trump granted the Executive Ordinance 14203 and imposed “sanctions against the International Criminal Court”, which called the British lawyer and ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan in his appendix – the first lawyer to take sanctions for advice on advice.

If sanctions are actually handed over to more British lawyers, Amal, 47 – who has British citizenship – could be prevented from entering the United States, where it has ownership with husband George Clooney.

Amal and her family were born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1978 and emigrated to Great Britain two years later to escape the Lebanese civil war. She grew up in Buckinghamshire before studying in Oxford and Nyu. It is qualified in the United States after it was approved in the New Yorker Bar in 2002, as well as England and Wales.

She and Clooney married in September 2014 and shared 7-year-old twins Ella and Alexander.

People have contacted the British foreign office as well as representatives of Amal and their legal chambers in order to obtain further information about possible sanctions. A representative for George refused to stand up for the position Finance times‘Report.

In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in relation to the offensive of Israel in Gaza. The Israeli leaders sentenced the indictment as “absurd and false lies”.

The court also accused three leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who started an attack on South Israel on October 7, 2023.

Trump’s Executive Ordinance in February 2025 claimed that the court abused its authority against Netanyahu and Gallant, since neither Israel nor the United States of the Rome statute – the international contract that has set up the ICC – abused against Netanyahu and gallant.

Both Israel and the United States signed the Rome statute in 2000, but later refused to ratify. Palestine ratified the contract in 2015, which means that all crimes committed in Palestinian areas could be a party of ICC jurisdiction.

The international criminal lawyer Alexandro Maria Tirelli explains to people that there is a strong way that the British lawyers who deal with sanctions and how Clooney and their co -monitor could exclude themselves from entry into the country.

Trump’s command in February referred to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act from 1977, the National Emergencies Act from 1976 and the law on immigration and nationality from 1952, also known as McCarran-Walter Act.

In particular, the IEPA enables the President to refuse assets, to refuse to enter the United States and to ban economic transactions to people who are hostile to “American interests”.

In addition, Tirelli notes that an executive regulation does not require a criminal conviction or a proper procedure. The proof of what makes a “threat” in this case would be at the discretion of the Trump administration.

There is also no way to appeal against a management regulation. The formally sanctioned would have to submit a federal law on the basis of “violation of the right to proper procedure”, “abuse of the executive authority” or “violation of professional freedom”.

During the protracted legal process, which could take six to 24 months, the sanctions would exist and the entry into the USA would continue to be rejected, says Tirelli.

There is very little precedent for the hypothetical sanctions or the legal recourse if they are used against British lawyers. Tirelli notes that there are absolutely no records of past US sanctions against foreign lawyers, “only for the exercise of professional legal functions”.

Nevertheless, the rumored sanctions contradict the basic principles of the United Nations directly to the role of lawyers (1990) that governments have the obligation to ensure their lawyers, “(a) are able to carry out all professional functions, without intimidation, disability, harassment or intermediate. recognized professional duties, standards and ethics were taken.

As far as the US opposition is concerned, when Trump cited the US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi in March 2025, sanctions against lawyers, law firms and judges, who have taken or ruled cases against him, spoke in favor of the American Bar Association against him.

“We reject the efforts to undermine the courts and the profession,” said ABA in an explanation at that time. “In view of the efforts, we will not be silent about the legal profession in something that rewards those who agree with the government, to reward those who punish those who do not.”