WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) celebrated the Senate’s recent unanimous passage of their Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act. The FISH Act would combat foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by blacklisting offending vessels from U.S. ports and waters, bolstering the U.S. Coast Guard’s enforcement capabilities and partnerships, […]
“There is no world where this is legal,” a current judge advocate general said. The Trump administration’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific have alarmed legal experts, Democratic lawmakers, and a small number of Republicans in Congress since they began in early September, but new reporting Thursday revealed that before the White House began the campaign that has […]
“This is not stretching the envelope,” said a retired judge advocate general lawyer. “This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart.” President Donald Trump’s administration claimed that the United States is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels in a confidential notice to Congress this week intended to justify his deadly bombings of […]
The attack came after a day of protest in which the National Lawyers Guild Chicago says officers were “launching chemical agents and firing munitions at members of the press and people assembled to protest.” Local police have launched a criminal investigation after a CBS News Chicago reporter said she was attacked “absolutely unprovoked” by immigration agents outside […]
