On November 13, Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Federalist Society’s 2026 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Federalist Society was characterized by Lyndon LaRouche in 2006 as “a society of the Hitler tradition... a society assembled around the ideas and influence of a man, Carl Schmitt, who crafted the Adolf Hitler administration.”

In his speech, Rubio denounced what he called “the weaponization of international law,” and aligned himself with the doctrine of “Might makes right”:

“Americans have never agreed to submit to the ICC’s authority, but that court and its allies in the global bureaucracy have appointed themselves judge and jury and executioner of the international order, ruling over all but account—ruling over all. They’re ruling—they think they have the right to rule over everyone, but they are accountable to no one, armed with the power to investigate, to prosecute, to persecute, and to jail our citizens according to laws we neither consent nor control.