I have been assuming from the start that this bombing of Venezuelan drug smuggling boats has been a serious overreach by the Trump administration and illegal. I was quite surprised then when Free Press legal correspondent Jed Rubenfeld, who is extremely unsympathetic to this administration, reports looking into it and finding it more complicated. Even if technically legal and justifiable it still might be very unwise and counterproductive, but that's not the issue at hand. If it's not legal it doesn't matter if it is wise or not. So determining the legality is the first order of business.
It has long been a humorous cliche among lawyers that the answer to everything is "It depends." Maybe it does.
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Complicated, true. But I still want buy-in from Congress. I cheerfully concede that fishermen don't use 75mph boats or submersibles, and that the announced targets are legitimate targets, and that the entanglement of the criminal organizations with various governments (Mexico, Venezuela, Chicago) is likely profound. But I still want official buy-in. Naive, I know.
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