1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Today I take pen in hand to write and urge you to open impeachment actions and eventual removal of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Since becoming Secretary of State, and later Acting National Security Advisor, Acting Archivist of the United States, and, until late August 2025, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rubio has enabled and furthered Trump’s impeachable offenses as listed below: -Illegally kidnapping, detaining, and removing U.S. residents – Rubio’s declaration that certain immigrants contravene U.S. foreign policy because of their speech or beliefs has been critical to attempts to detain and deport those immigrants. Illegally and unconstitutionally removing U.S. residents, migrants, and asylum-seekers to foreign prisons – negotiating agreements with foreign countries to allow for third-party country transfers; refusing to negotiate to return wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia - Unconstitutionally and systematically violating the First Amendment – Rubio’s declaration secretly vilifying and removing legal status from lawful immigrants due to their exercise of free speech rights. - Unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s powers – dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development despite Congress having allocated funds to the agency. - Unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s powers to declare War – supporting and facilitating action against Iran without proper authorization. Imposing unlawful tariffs – assisting Trump in imposing harmful and unlawful tariffs on foreign countries. - Defying court orders, threatening judges, and unconstitutionally usurping judicial authority – refusing to negotiate with El Salvador for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Planning the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza – supporting the forced removal of Palestinians. - Abusing his power in order to undermine public health and safety – dismantling U.S. Agency for International Development and severely curtailing U.S. contributions to global public health efforts in ways that ultimately undermine American health safety and outcomes.  - Abusing his power in order to deprive the American public of accurate political, historic, scientific, and medical information – as Acting Archivist, failing to initiate investigations into or seeking to preserve unauthorized communications on the Signal application by top officials; altering the State Department’s Human Rights Report so deeply that it has lost credibility as a globally recognized and respected resource. - Committing war and humanitarian crimes against civilians in Latin America – supporting the unauthorized strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. In short, Rubio has spectacularly failed to faithfully discharge the duties of his offices. He must be held accountable for his actions. Impeach and remove him from office, pending criminal charges for all his conduct listed above. Thank you.