Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced the “rules-based order” enforced by international lawyers and “activist courts” in an article released Friday evening, his first speech since the midterm elections and one that comes as efforts to recruit him for a presidential bid intensify.
“We Americans are not passive, inward-looking people. To submit to the sterile vision of radical judges or soulless global bureaucrats would be to betray who we are, to betray ourselves,” he said in his speech to the conservative legal group Federalist Society.
Rubio spoke as the Republican Party turns its attention to who could win in 2028 after a wipeout in the midterm elections. Some Republicans said he was best suited to chart a new course away from the president. Donald Trump – even though Democrats say they I plan to grill Rubio on Trump’s foreign policy once he gains a majority in Congress.
Rubio did not break with Trump in his speech, but instead fiercely defended the administration’s policies in sweeping language and easy, friendly delivery before a receptive audience who interrupted him with applause. He supported the sinking of suspected drug trafficking boats and the capture of the former Venezuelan president. Nicolas Maduro and the administration’s aggressive campaign against immigrants.
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