Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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So if the blockade was unconstitutional, then these other things were too.
The Amy Warwick, the Hiawatha, the Briante, and the Crenshaw had all been seized separately for violating the blockade.
The owners and the merchants laying claim to these ships appealed to the Supreme Court, and their legal claims were heard together in what would be known as the prize cases.
In March of 1863, the Supreme Court decided by just one vote in favor of the Lincoln administration.
Yes.
According to the Supreme Court, this was a war.
The concept wasn't limited just to a conflict between two independent nations.
And yes, Lincoln did have constitutional authority to issue the blockade.
And if war was brought to the United States by invasion or rebellion, as the court explained, the president was not just authorized, but required by the Constitution to resist what it called force by force.
In other words, Lincoln did have the authority for the blockade, even though Congress hadn't approved it.
the prize cases were a turning point in the constitutionality of the Civil War.
And the prize cases also happened to be the only time the Supreme Court has ever addressed the constitutionality of presidential war power without congressional approval.
Yet president after president has claimed that they have independent war authority no matter what Congress might say.
And that raises the question of whether President Trump can constitutionally order military strikes on what appear to be fishing boats in the Caribbean because the Trump administration alleges that these boats are carrying illegal drugs into the United States.
So remember that in March, President Trump signed a proclamation that designated Trendiagra, or TDA, as a designated foreign terrorist organization.
And TDA, as a reminder, is a criminal gang that originated in Venezuela, but now it's considered kind of a multinational criminal organization.
And Trump's proclamation back then stated that TDA was perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.
And so in our previous episode, we talked about how this proclamation has been used by the Trump administration to detain Venezuelan non-citizens in the United States and then designate them as alien enemies and simply deport them.
And so there's been a controversy over that, of course.
And that designation also leads us to these boat strikes.
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