Top Military Lawyer’s Objection to Trump Boat Bombings Off Venezuela Were Sidelined: Report

Top Military Lawyer’s Objection to Trump Boat Bombings Off Venezuela Were Sidelined: Report

“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 […]

After Bombing Boats, Trump Tells Congress US Is in ‘Armed Conflict’ With Drug Cartels

After Bombing Boats, Trump Tells Congress US Is in ‘Armed Conflict’ With Drug Cartels

  “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 […]

CBS Chicago Reporter Says ICE Shot Chemical Agents at Her ‘Absolutely Unprovoked’

CBS Chicago Reporter Says ICE Shot Chemical Agents at Her ‘Absolutely Unprovoked’

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 […]

Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian ‘Incites Violence and Terrorism’

Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian ‘Incites Violence and Terrorism’

“Trying to criminalize the act of calling a government ‘authoritarian,’” one journalist said, “is exactly what an authoritarian government would do.” Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff, signaled how far he is willing to go to criminalize dissent against President Donald Trump in a social media post on Wednesday in which he implied that […]

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