Donald Trump is reportedly charging ahead with his administration’s campaign of indiscriminate bombings in the Caribbean Sea by leveraging a “two-part hack to the system” of checks and balances on his power as president.
“The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency,” according to a new report from the New York Times.
Beginning in early September, the White House has initiated a rabid military campaign in waters off the southern coast of the United States. Its stated goal: combating international drug traffickers with targeted attacks against vessels allegedly operated by Latin American cartels, such as Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua.
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