The US Treasury Department confirmed the removal of Albanese's name from its sanctions list in an update on its website on Wednesday, under the heading “International Criminal Court-related Designation Removal”.
The move came a week after US district judge Richard Leon issued a temporary injunction against the sanctions, finding that the Trump administration had sought to regulate Albanese's speech because of the "idea or message expressed".
In an opinion granting the preliminary injunction, Leon said "protecting the freedom of speech is 'always' in the public interest".
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed in February by Albanese's husband, Massimiliano Cali, a senior economist for the World Bank in Tunisia, which argued that the measures were intended as a punishment for her public criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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