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First, the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: First the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war

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In the United States, we have two firewalls against unjust and unlawful wars. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military , Politics

Simplified: In the United States we have two firewalls against unjust and unlawful wars

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There must be a legal basis for the use of force, and the force that is used must also be lawful. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: There must be a legal basis for force and the force used must also be lawful

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For the use of military force to be lawful, it must satisfy the requirements of both doctrines. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: For military force to be lawful it must satisfy requirements of both doctrines

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If it’s lawful to fight, then how must I fight? 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: If it is lawful to fight then how must I fight

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Jus in bello refers to conduct within the war. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Jus in bello refers to conduct within the war

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Members of the National Guard patrolling American streets could be granted broad authority to use deadly force, circumventing due process through a hail of gunfire. 0.850

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Military , Law

Simplified: Members of National Guard patrolling American streets could be granted broad authority to use deadly force circumventing due process

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In other words, when is it legal to fight? 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: When is it legal to fight

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Jus ad bellum refers to the limited legal right to go to war. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Jus ad bellum refers to the limited legal right to go to war

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They go by two Latin terms: jus ad bellum and jus in bello. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: They go by two Latin terms jus ad bellum and jus in bello

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The thing that separates war from murder is the law, and the law of war contains two key components. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: The law separates war from murder and the law of war contains two key components

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What we are left with is a military strike conducted against suspects without due process, in the absence of any need for immediate self-defense (the boat was not firing on American forces), without a... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military , International Law

Simplified: We are left with a military strike against suspects without due process without any congressional authorization and without any basis in international...

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We do not kill those suspected of being criminals from the air. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: We do not kill suspected criminals from the air

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It can also require financial institutions to block transactions involving terrorist property and assets. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Finance

Simplified: It can also require financial institutions to block transactions involving terrorist property and assets

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If these drug smuggling suspects open fire, American forces can respond, but they cannot simply execute someone on the mere suspicion of drug trafficking. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Military , Law

Simplified: If drug smuggling suspects open fire American forces can respond but cannot execute someone on suspicion of drug trafficking

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What the statute does do is bar Americans from providing “material support or resources” to the designated group and bar members of the group from entry into the United States. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The statute bars Americans from providing material support or resources to the designated group and bars members from entry into the United States

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Typically, when the Coast Guard or another branch of the military or law enforcement spots a boat suspected of carrying drugs, we seek to stop the boat, search it, seize any drugs and arrest and quest... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Typically when law enforcement spots a boat suspected of carrying drugs they seek to stop search seize drugs arrest and question the crew

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The closest thing we’ve heard to an actual legal argument is the repeated assertion that Trump could order a strike on Tren de Aragua because it’s a designated terrorist organization. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military , Politics

Simplified: The closest legal argument is the assertion that Trump could order a strike on Tren de Aragua because it is a designated terrorist organization

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So where did Trump find the legal authority to initiate deadly force against suspected members of a drug gang? 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military , Politics

Simplified: Where did Trump find the legal authority to initiate deadly force against suspected members of a drug gang

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The broad language of Article 18 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice — the criminal laws that govern the armed forces — extends the requirements of international law into U.S. military law, and th... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Article 18 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice extends requirements of international law into U.S. military law and presidents do not have the pow...

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