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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...
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 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...
Section 1325 criminalizes an initial unlawful entry into the —generally a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail—while Section 1326 criminalizes unlawful reentry after a prior removal or d...
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...
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 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...
A definitive legal ruling does not exist: no sitting president has ever been federally indicted, and the has never squarely decided whether a president can be criminally prosecuted while in office . T...
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...
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...
A government funding bill can circumvent the Senate’s 60‑vote filibuster threshold by using the budget reconciliation process, which permits passage with a simple majority but is constrained by strict...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Constitution assigns as an impeachable offense and provides that officials removed after conviction remain “liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law” (Art...
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...