"International Law Is an Instrument to Advance Their Interests": US State Secy Rubio Slams Global Elite at Federalist Society Convention
Rubio said international legal institutions are being used to weaken the United States and defend the administration’s positions on Iran, immigration enforcement and the International Criminal Court.
- On Friday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, accusing global elites of weaponizing international legal institutions to undermine American sovereignty and restrict the nation's ability to defend its interests.
- Rubio alleged international law serves as a political instrument for global elites to advance their interests under the guise of universal principles, with those actors "accountable to no one."
- Drawing parallels to domestic legal challenges against the Trump administration, Rubio asserted the weaponization of law aims to weaken the United States and hinder the government's sovereign authority to act.
- The Secretary defended the Trump administration's stance on the International Criminal Court as an unelected tribunal, while backing its immigration enforcement and Iran military policies.
- Addressing recent midterm losses, Rubio urged Republicans to focus on long-term institutional engagement, stating, "Great things that last are built in decades, not election cycles.
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International law is an instrument to advance their interests: US State Secy Rubio slams global elite at Federalist Society convention - The Tribune
"For this global elite, international law is not a neutral body of rules. International law is an instrument — an instrument to advance their interests under the pretence of universal principles. They think they have the right to rule over everyone, but they are accountable to no one," he said.
"International law is an instrument to advance their interests": US State Secy Rubio slams global elite at Federalist Society convention
"For this global elite, international law is not a neutral body of rules. International law is an instrument — an instrument to advance their interests under the pretence of universal principles. They think they have the right to rule over everyone, but they are accountable to no one," he said.
Rubio hits out at international law as tool of 'global elite' in sharp warning to ICC
Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, accused critics of “weaponising” international law and warned the International Criminal Court against trying to enforce rules Washington does not recognise
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Rubio targets ICC: 'Won't submit to sterile vision of radical judges' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has targeted the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a speech to a conservative legal group on Friday, arguing for a muscular foreign policy and against international law restraining US actions. During his speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, his first prepared remarks since Republicans were routed in the midterm elections on 3 N…
A window that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized Friday, what he described as "the use of international law as a weapon," considered as an instrument in the hands of the elite, as he attacked the International Criminal Court and warned it against imposing laws that Washington did not recognize...
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