🧩 BND Motif Index · M785
National sovereignty
A nation and its citizens are said to answer to no foreign court or international body: you're an American citizen, you should never be subject to any international law.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court 2026-10-10 to 2026-10-12
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-18 “The EU is a stagnant, over-regulated bloc; rejoining would be a step backward from the UK's global trade and national sovereignty.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-11 “The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against the International Criminal Court by imposing sanctions on the institution to avoid international legal accountability.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “American citizens should not be subject to the jurisdiction of international law.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show
M785 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works