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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,440 posts)
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 04:55 PM Apr 2025

Maddow Blog Little Marco is finding new ways to fail as secretary of state

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is apparently aware of the national controversy surrounding Kilmar Abrego García, whom the Trump administration improperly sent to a Salvadoran prison but isn’t trying to bring back.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the Trump administration was not bound to follow court orders to return Kilmar Abrego García from El Salvador, saying that ‘no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.’ ... ‘I don’t understand what the confusion is,’ Rubio said. ‘This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.’


Right off the bat, the idea that the federal courts are powerless on matters of foreign policy is bizarre.

But more specifically, in the García case, I don’t understand what it is Rubio doesn’t understand. A federal court ruled that García must not be sent to El Salvador. A variety of Trump administration officials, including the Trump-appointed solicitor general, have already admitted that it was a mistake to send him to the country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-marco-rubio-finding-160219182.html

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Maddow Blog Little Marco is finding new ways to fail as secretary of state (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2025 OP
Trump was correct in identifying Lil Marco as a spineless shill. dem4decades Apr 2025 #1
Yes, he got neutered by djt and he's never recovered. A spineless coward. SWBTATTReg Apr 2025 #3
Little Marco hates his job. Dulcinea Apr 2025 #2

Dulcinea

(9,609 posts)
2. Little Marco hates his job.
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:05 PM
Apr 2025

He always looks like he wishes the floor would open up & swallow him.

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