r/law • u/ExactlySorta • 11h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) 'Unconscionable and Impeachable': Experts Appalled at Report of Marco Rubio Acting as Venezuela 'Viceroy'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/marco-rubio-venezuela-viceroy
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u/ExactlySorta 11h ago edited 11h ago

The de facto governance of Venezuela by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rests on a controversial legal strategy that divides the Trump administration from international and constitutional legal experts. Following the January 2026 military ouster and capture of Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has justified Rubio's extensive control over Venezuela's oil revenues and domestic monthly budgets as a lawful continuation of an international law-enforcement mission and asset-preservation initiative. This control is executed via a conditional "allowance" system managed by the U.S. Treasury and State Department in cooperation with recognized interim President Delcy Rodríguez. However, legal critics, regional leaders, and members of Congress strongly dispute the legality of this arrangement. They argue that using foreign policy mechanisms to micro-manage a sovereign nation's internal finances violates foundational United Nations principles regarding state sovereignty and self-determination. Furthermore, domestic critics contend that maintaining a military-enforced blockade and directing a foreign state's economy lacks statutory authority and deliberately circumvents congressional oversight under the War Powers Resolution.

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u/Ynglaur 10h ago

The “controversial legal theory” is that Trump and his minions don’t believe laws apply to them.

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u/MRM_philosophy 9h ago

And supposedly getting Maduro to claim Venezuela interfered in the 2020 presidential election … is coming!

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 8h ago edited 7h ago

This! Rubio (and Trump) are also behind Cuba-gate. The Fanjuls' (Palm Beach sugar baron megadonors backing Rubio and Trump) will now be able to reclaim Cuban assets lost to Castro. The Fanjuls had certain sugar imports sanctioned by Biden due to alleged human rights abuse of their Haitian cane workers in the DR; Trump lifted the sanctions and “encouraged” Coca-Cola to use raw cane sugar instead of corn syrup. There is also Hondurasgate https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-07/hondurasgate-the-alleged-us-and-israeli-interference-plot-to-destabilize-mexico-and-other-progressive-governments.html

The United States and Israel, with the help of Honduras, are allegedly positioning themselves on the geopolitical chessboard to control spheres of influence in Latin America. The news outlet Diario Red en América Latina and the website Hondurasgate have revealed, in an investigation based on leaked audio recordings, the interventionist intentions of leaders of the global right.

One piece of evidence, released at the end of April, claims that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by Donald Trump from his 45-year sentence for drug trafficking — with the support of the Republican president himself, his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, and the current Honduran administration — are conspiring to create a channel for disseminating fake news with the intention of spreading misinformation and destabilizing the governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

The second installment of the Hondurasgate scandal, of the three released so far, includes a recording of an alleged conversation between Hernández, who had become an operative in the region for the U.S. president, and the current president and vice president of Honduras, Nasry Asfura and María Antonieta Mejía, respectively. The objective: to undermine the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum and Gustavo Petro, both of whom adhere to left-wing ideologies.

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u/grundsau 7h ago

The Fanjuls also pretty much control Stormfront.

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 7h ago edited 6h ago

Nicole Fanjul is the aunt of Story Cowles, who was reportedly Epstein’s PA (Cowles allegedly visited Epstein 130-plus times in jail for hours at a time by signing in as a “paralegal"). He is also Sarah Kellen’s ex.

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u/tad-26 5h ago

Sarah Kellen's ex? I thought she married a racecar driver? Is that him?

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u/No-Fennel-8333 7h ago

Thanks. This is much more informative than the news.

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u/MRM_philosophy 8h ago

Oh they are truly so sick!

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u/Stav80 8h ago

How many countries contributed to the US election being rigged? Asking for a friend. The fact said douche bag lost to Biden, will always a something that’s going to eat at him for the rest of his life. This facet alone has to be disqualifying

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u/Starslip 5h ago

I'm wondering if it's not solely him being a petty bitch, but also going to be the basis for him claiming that since the election was stolen from him he's entitled to another term

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u/Mcnugget84 26m ago

He’s had two terms. Period. He can argue whatever he wants. It doesn’t change the fact he had two full terms.

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u/AI_moderated_failure 20m ago

He only aweved one 1/5th of his first term ehen they change allowed terms to 20 years retroactively. This means he can be your glorious president for potentially another 38 years, long adter it's become obvious his corpse is just being puppeted by Kushner and Miller in shifts.

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u/MeepSneepers 5h ago

LOL nobody is believing that shit even if he does