Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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Right.
And remember, why is the Trump administration doing this?
They're trying to avoid being restrained by that 60-day clock.
That would require Trump to stop the boat strikes or to have Congress approve of what he is doing, which I think seems unlikely.
So these boat strikes are definitely unprecedented.
I mean, Trump is ordering the execution by the military of people who are allegedly, allegedly bringing drugs into the United States rather than apprehending them and arresting them.
That is unprecedented.
But Trump's attempts to legally justify what's happening, that by itself is not completely a surprise.
So if you go back to 2011, the Obama administration interpreted the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution so that the United States could participate in part of this NATO coalition effort.
And we could raise questions about the wisdom of that specific intervention, but it was backed by a UN Security Council resolution.
And the reason this happened or the reason why the Obama administration took the direction it did was because there were a lot of Republicans who objected to this particular intervention.
It was not realistic that he was going to get congressional authorization.
So it crafted a legal interpretation to try to justify its use of military force.
But even if you disagreed with what the U.S.
was doing, I don't think we'd really call it the actions of a rogue president.
We might say, well, you know...
Maybe the U.S.
shouldn't have intervened to the extent that it did or to the amount of time that it did.
But it's not exactly a rogue president in this way.
But I don't want to just dump on Obama here.
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