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President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
President Obama’s administration authorized at least one deliberate targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad — Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen — and the Justice Department produced a confidential legal fram...
at least two forensic and surveillance technologies: under a roughly $2 million agreement and long-standing tied to multi-million-dollar contracts; procurement notices, Federal Procurement Data System...
Lawsuits and congressional pushback did arise over the Obama administration’s drone program, especially after the 2011 killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al‑Awlaki; civil-rights groups sued and Congress pr...
Guantánamo Bay is a U.S. naval base site that has housed a military detention facility since January 11, 2002, becoming the signature locus of post‑9/11 indefinite detention, rendition and torture all...
Barack Obama’s record on due process is mixed: he explicitly curtailed post-9/11 practices like CIA “enhanced interrogation” and promised to close Guantánamo and secret sites, steps proponents view as...
A broad constellation of civil lawsuits — largely brought by state attorneys general, advocacy groups, and international civil-society coalitions — has targeted President Joe Biden and his administrat...
There is no single public roster that lists ICE agents sued for constitutional violations since 2020; accountability information is scattered across FOIA releases, state reporting portals, civil-right...
The Obama administration relied on internal Justice Department legal memoranda and a public, executive-branch framework that characterized members of al‑Qaida and “associated forces” as continuing imm...
The Obama administration justified targeted killings without trial by framing them as lawful acts of national self-defense conducted in an ongoing armed conflict with al‑Qaida and associated forces, r...
The United States can and has authorized sanctions on foreign judges and international court staff by using a delegation of presidential emergency powers—primarily the International Emergency Economic...
Members of Congress and bipartisan groups challenged President Obama’s military actions most visibly over Libya in 2011 and in lawsuits tied to targeted killing policies; litigation and congressional ...
The Obama administration’s targeted‑killing program prompted both congressional scrutiny and multiple judicial challenges, most prominently litigation over the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al‑Awlaki ...
Civil-rights groups criticized administration for running a that prioritized speed and volume over individualized due process, used detention and summary removal practices that harmed families and asy...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no clear, documented instance in these sources of a FOIA lawsuit filed by journalists that specifically produced “use‑of‑force” files between 2015 and 2021; th...
Civil liberties groups have responded to NSPM-7 and accompanying executive steps against antifa with coordinated public denunciations, FOIA litigation seeking internal legal justifications, and warnin...
A constellation of civil‑liberties lawsuits followed the post‑9/11 detentions: ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights suits to force disclosure and challenge mass immigrant roundups, habeas and due...
Public anger at Immigration and Customs Enforcement can be channeled through coordinated political pressure, legal and community defense, sustained protest tactics and targeted campaigns to change fun...
Legal and political pushback to President Obama’s use of force came through two channels: litigation that tested the administration’s detention and targeted‑killing authorities in federal courts, and ...
Yes. Multiple lawsuits and court actions have been brought that directly challenge ICE and other federal immigration agents for using “less-lethal” or crowd‑control weapons against clergy, faith leade...