Tag: Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
War Powers, Venezuela, Drug Boats, and Congress
With the U.S. maritime bombing campaign against suspected drug boats and the Jan. 2-3 military incursion into Venezuela that resulted in the capture of...
Maduro Capture Operation and the President’s Duty to Faithfully Execute U.N. Charter
In the operation to abduct Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration reportedly relied on a highly controversial 1989 legal memorandum claiming the President does not...