Rubio To Warn International Criminal Court: ‘Stop Quoting Laws To Men With Swords’

WASHINGTON— Secretary of State Marco Rubio will issue a stark warning to the International Criminal Court on Friday evening in his first major speech following the midterm elections, The Daily Wire has learned.

Rubio will address the Federalist Society at the National Lawyers Convention at 5 pm on Friday, a State Department official told The Daily Wire. He will speak on the “indispensability” of the conservative legal movement in the modern era and “the contours of power and influence in a democratic society.”

He will also critique the “existing legal status quo” and slam the International Criminal Court and “other entities that use the law not as an instrument of justice, but as a pretense to cynically advance an ideology that seeks to constrain the United States, hinder its ability to act in accordance with its national interest, and subordinate the will of the nation state under that of global bureaucrats and activist judges.”

The speech comes as Rubio faces speculation about a possible presidential run in 2028.

“For this global elite, ‘international law’ is not a neutral body of rules,” Rubio will say, according to previews of his remarks shared with The Daily Wire. “It’s an instrument to advance their interests under the pretense of universal principles. They’re staunch defenders of democracy, until a particular election challenges their interests.”

“They lecture us on the importance of sovereignty, even as they demand that nations surrender control of their borders – and outsource their immigration laws to unelected international courts,” he will continue. “They oppose all forms of imperialism, conquest and domination, while seeking to exercise authority over every country and government on Earth.”

That is why, Rubio will say, President Donald Trump made the “unprecedented decision to sanction the International Criminal Court” earlier this year. Rubio will call the court “an unelected world tribunal which claims to supersede the laws and constitutions of sovereign states.”

“Americans never agreed to submit to the ICC’s authority,” Rubio will tell the Federalist Society. “But the court and its allies in the global bureaucracy have appointed themselves judge, jury, and executioner of the international order, ruling over all but accountable to none; armed with the power to investigate, prosecute and jail our citizens according to laws we neither consent to nor control.”

“They can certainly try,” Rubio will say. “But if they are foolish enough to try to enforce their paper decrees, our answer will be the same as the Roman general Pompey gave to those who invoked their city’s charters against his legions: ‘Stop quoting laws to men with swords.’”

Rubio will also argue that America’s founding principles are rooted in the pursuit of greatness and in ambition, and that submitting to international judges and to global bureaucrats betrays the American legacy.

“America has always been a nation of irrepressible ambition – ambition which, since the very beginning, extended far beyond our borders,” he will say on Friday evening. “Low ceilings and small horizons were never our destiny. Even the American Revolution was driven, in part, by our forefathers’ anger at British limits on our westward expansion – a grievance cited in the Declaration of Independence itself.”

“The history of our nation and our people brims with a hunger to expand, to grow, to explore and conquer, to stake a claim to new frontiers,” Rubio will go on. “It can be found in the opening paragraph of the Federalist Papers, where Hamilton begins by announcing to his readers that the ratification debate would decide ‘the fate of an empire, in many respects the most interesting in the world.'”

Rubio will tell the crowd that Americans are “not a passive, inward-looking people.”

“To submit to the sterile vision of radical judges or soulless global bureaucrats would be to betray ourselves,” he will say.

“The real America – the nation that actually exists in the text of our founding documents, in the history of our people, in the conduct of the men who built backwater colonies into the greatest superpower on Earth – was always destined to go beyond: to be greater, stronger, more than what had come before,” Rubio will say. “Our laws, our Constitution, our legal norms and political traditions developed because – not in spite – of that fact.”

Rubio will also warn that the spirit of Marxism is alive and well in international institutions and among global elites.

“We are told that our determination to act in our own interests, on our own terms, is an assault on the universal ‘rules-based order,'” Rubio will say. “The president himself cannot execute the foreign policy of the United States, or restrict trade or immigration, or even examine the way we spend our citizens’ tax dollars abroad, without facing the fury of international lawyers, jurists, NGOs and UN bureaucrats condemning his threats to global values and norms.”

Rubio will add: “All of this – at home and abroad – is a child of the leveling and pessimistic spirit of the age. It entices us to relinquish responsibility for our own destiny, and relieve ourselves of the burden of greatness – and seek refuge in the glittering generalities of ‘international law.'”

Rubio will argue that even though the United States “defeated the institution of Soviet communism, we did not triumph over the spirit of Marx.”

“It lives on, in these new forms and doctrines, which would subordinate the national will to the menial consensus of the world,” he will say. “Marxism, in its traditional expression, sought to abolish the distinctions between men; the radicals of our time seek to abolish the distinctions between nations themselves.”

“The ultimate question of our time is whether Americans have a moral right to exist, as a distinct nation and people – and thus, to demand a government that defends and pursues our interests,” Rubio will say. “Those who tell us that we are living on ‘stolen land’ – that our nation was founded and built upon slavery, genocide, and oppression – are telling us clearly that they do not believe that we do.”

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