War on Drugs
Top Democrats call for release of video showing U.S. military’s boat strike
What happened on September 2? Over the weekend, top Democrats called for the release of classified materials pertaining to the U.S. military's September 2 boat attack. "Democrats and Republicans have offered starkly…
Supply, Demand, and The War on Drugs
“There was no ‘kill them all’ order.” That is what Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley told lawmakers this week in a classified briefing on the Sept. 2 military strike on an alleged narco-terrorist boat in the Caribbean that…
Philip Hamburger on “The Importance of Granting Cert in Canna Provisions v. Bondi”
Illustration: Lex Villena Columbia law Prof. Philip Hamburger - one of the nation's leading constitutional law and administrative law scholars - saw my post urging the Supreme Court to consider the case of Canna…
The ‘threat’ that supposedly justified killing 2 boat attack survivors was speculative
On Thursday, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the newly controversial September 2 operation that inaugurated President Donald Trump's deadly military campaign against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the…
Boat strike commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were smuggling cocaine
If we call a cocaine smuggler an "unlawful combatant" in an "armed struggle" against the United States, the Trump administration says, it is OK to kill him, even if he is unarmed and poses no immediate…
The Supreme Court Should Hear Case Seeking to Overturn Gonzales v. Raich
A cannabis plant. (NA) A recent petition for certiorari in the case of Canna Provisions, Inc. v. Bondi, asks the Supreme Court to overrule its terrible decision in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), which held that Congress'…
Rand Paul bashes Pete Hegseth over boat bombings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfQFDFvsFI Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed outrage at being misled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea. Hegseth initially…
Hegseth’s ‘fog of war’ is no excuse for summarily executing suspected drug smugglers
"I did not personally see survivors," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "The thing was on fire. It exploded, there's fire, there's smoke….This is called the fog of…
The law of war was not designed for Trump’s bogus ‘armed conflict’ with drug smugglers
The Trump administration disputes The Washington Post's report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instructed U.S. forces to "kill everybody" on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean last September, which…
Trump faces fallout as lawmakers probe Hegseth’s deadly Caribbean strikes
War crimes cover-up? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is finding his way into trouble due to his handling of the legally suspect Caribbean boat strikes, which have killed over 80 people so far. The Washington Post reported on…
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