CREW just sued Marco Rubio and the State Department
We just sued Marco Rubio and the State Department
- Tue, Mar 10 2026 at 10:18 AM
Mark,
CREW just sued Marco Rubio and the State Department on behalf of Lawfare for violating the Case Act by failing to make international agreements public, including agreements about deportations, defense sales, Ukrainian minerals and nuclear cooperation.
For decades, the Case-Zablocki Act, also known as the Case Act, has required the State Department to regularly disclose the text of international agreements to Congress and a companion statute has required the agency to publicly disclose some of these agreements.
But since President Trump took office, they have largely disregarded their obligations under the Case Act—leaving Americans in the dark about foreign policy and deals being made on their behalf.
The Trump administration has been ignoring their legal obligations by refusing to post the texts of and the underlying legal authority for a range of international agreements.
In particular, they have refused to post detention agreements on the deportation of foreign nationals to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama.
They also failed to post agreements from May 2025 with Saudi Arabia and Qatar for defense sales and investments totaling tens of billions of dollars, as well as another agreement from that same month with Ukraine to establish a joint reconstruction investment fund focused on critical minerals.
The administration has also neglected to post more routine agreements, such as those about deliveries of Rio Grande water from Mexico, civil nuclear cooperation with Thailand and U.S. commercial space launches in Sweden.
Mark, the American people need transparency about consequential international agreements being made in their name.
The court should find the Department of State and Secretary of State Rubio in violation of the Case Act for abdicating their legal responsibility to make covered international agreement information publicly available and order the government to post the text of all of its agreements.
Americans have a right to understand the significant and consequential international agreements being made in their name. Failing to follow the law to make those agreements public is unacceptable and undermines trust, transparency and accountability in government.
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