Rubio ordered to refer remaining Signal texts to DOJ as court can’t do anything about deleted messages

Published June 21, 2025 3:11pm ET



Judge James Boasberg ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the acting archivist, to collect any Signal messages belonging to top Trump administration officials and refer them to the Justice Department.

Boasberg said he could not do anything about the Signal messages that have already been deleted, but the execution of his order would preserve the messages that have not yet been deleted.

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