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U.S. forces have struck and destroyed multiple vessels they described as drug-smuggling boats departing Venezuela; reporting shows roughly 18–21 strikes and 70–83 people killed as of mid‑ to late‑Nove...
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...
The Obama administration justified the targeted killing of U.S. citizens like Anwar al‑Awlaki chiefly through a Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo and a companion DOJ White Paper...
Donald Trump’s admitted use of an autopen—saying he used it “only for very unimportant papers”—places him in a long line of presidents who have relied on automated signature machines, but his public c...
The President can order U.S. Marines (and other forces) into action without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; longstanding practice, Department of Justice and Office of Legal Counsel reas...
A clear legal consensus does not exist that a sitting U.S. president can be criminally charged with treason while in office; federal practice and a longstanding Department of Justice policy have treat...
The Obama administration justified drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen primarily by relying on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and the administration’s interpretation of the Pr...
The provided analyses assert several by the Trump administration, chiefly the deployment of National Guard forces in Illinois, controversial immigration and asylum practices, use of lethal force polic...
The administration’s legal arguments for striking suspected “drug boats” rest chiefly on an executive-branch reading that treats the campaign as part of U.S. counternarcotics and collective self‑defen...
President Trump announced he would “cancel” or declare “terminated” any executive orders and other documents he says were signed by President Joe Biden using an autopen, claiming roughly 92% of Biden’...
The question has no single settled answer in law: the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and longstanding DOJ policy say a sitting president should not be criminally prosecuted while i...
Autopen signatures are widely considered legally valid when the signer authorized their use; the key legal question is authorization and intent, not the mechanical method of making the mark . A 2005 O...
The law commonly referred to as the "War Powers Act" is the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a federal statute that requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing U.S. armed for...
U.S. strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats have produced at least dozens of deaths and prompted wide legal controversy: reporting counts at least 61–87 killed in a series of strikes and raises s...
The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on whether an autopen signature invalidates presidential pardons or statutes; there is no controlling Supreme Court precedent on this precise issue and leading con...
Autopens are mechanical signature-replicating machines long used in the White House to reproduce a president’s handwriting; the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has said a president need n...
Autopen signatures are not novel and have been used by presidents for decades; the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded in 2005 that a president “may sign a bill … by directing...
International law prohibits deliberate attacks on civilian ships unless they have become lawful military targets; key legal regimes cited by experts include International Humanitarian Law (distinction...
Congress did not successfully “invoke” or enforce the War Powers Resolution to stop President Trump’s Venezuela operations; senators on Nov. 6 rejected a resolution that would have blocked strikes on ...
The narrow, direct answer is: yes — several criminal prosecutions against Donald Trump that were active through 2024–2025 were formally dropped or halted after he won re-election and returned to the p...