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General Category => Crime And Punishment => Topic started by: corbe on April 26, 2024, 03:34:40 am
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Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So
BY: BRIANNA LYMAN
APRIL 25, 2024
Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that droning American citizens is permissible because Obama’s DOJ said so, whereas questioning election results isn’t OK because the government also says so.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the scope of presidential immunity after special counsel Jack Smith alleged that former President Donald Trump should be tossed in jail for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh posed a series of hypotheticals to DOJ attorney Michael Dreeben about the scope of presidential authority, asking whether Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon in 1976 could have been investigated for obstruction of justice “on the theory that [Ford was] interfering with the investigation of Richard Nixon.”
Dreeben suggested that particular case would fall under “presidential responsibilities that Congress cannot regulate.”
“How about President Obama’s drone strikes?” Kavanaugh asked.
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https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/25/biden-doj-says-droning-american-citizens-is-totally-fine-because-obamas-doj-said-so/ (https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/25/biden-doj-says-droning-american-citizens-is-totally-fine-because-obamas-doj-said-so/)