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The board's real-world authority is constrained by international law, which limits its ability to override existing laws and UN prerogatives.
The United States could physically attempt to seize Greenland, but doing so would be legally fraught, politically catastrophic, and militarily complex — and most analysts and officials cited in report...
The United States would need Denmark’s and very likely Greenlanders’ explicit consent, plus adherence to international law and U.S. constitutional processes — primarily a treaty approved by two‑thirds...
The legal and congressional oversight around routine covert counterterrorism and counter‑narcotics raids typically rests on a long‑standing statutory and oversight framework that mandates classified n...
The weight of reporting and expert commentary indicates the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro likely violated international law because it involved U.S. forces operating inside Venezuela without the cons...
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president and the accompanying military strikes have prompted sharp legal debate: many legal analysts say the operation likely violated international law and may have e...
Two competing international-law narratives have been advanced about U.S. sanctions and the recent use of force in Venezuela: proponents argue sanctions and limited coercive measures are lawful economi...
The draft charter and multiple news reports make clear that vests sweeping procedural and veto powers in its chairman — named in the documents as — including agenda-setting, appointment and removal of...
The Obama administration’s Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) and public fact sheets tied lethal targeting outside areas of active hostilities to a “continuing, imminent” threat and a set of heightene...
The Biden administration has most commonly invoked the president’s Article II commander‑in‑chief powers, cited the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) as permissive/“ancilla...
An emergency UN discussion of the U.S. strikes on Venezuela produced a split international scene: many governments loudly condemned the operation, but a smaller set of states responded with cautious, ...
At least a dozen countries and several international bodies have publicly condemned recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela as an act of aggression; multiple sources list overlapping but not identic...
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was carried out by the executive branch without clear prior congressional authorization and immediately prompted legal and political challeng...
Other states and international institutions have reacted to allegations of U.S. actions under President Trump with a mix of sharp diplomatic condemnation, legal analysis from international experts, pr...
What would make it illegal for President Trump to seize Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro hinges on two overlapping legal regimes: international law governing the use of force and sovereignty, and U.S. domes...