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It is true that the administration has the authority to designate foreign entities as terrorist organizations. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The administration has the authority to designate foreign entities as terrorist organizations

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For his part, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said that the United States will “blow up” members of criminal groups, and on Thursday designated two more groups, the Ecuadorean gangs Los Lobos and... 0.900

👤 Marco Rubio 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military , Politics

Simplified: Marco Rubio said the United States will blow up members of criminal groups and designated two more groups as terror organizations

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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. 0.900

👤 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... 0.950

👤 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 powe...

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To even mention Tren de Aragua in the same breath as Al Qaeda, much less Imperial Japan, illustrates the absurdity of the administration’s argument. 0.950

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

Simplified: Mentioning Tren de Aragua in the same breath as Al Qaeda illustrates the absurdity of the administration’s argument

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It can’t be compared to Pearl Harbor, to Sept. 11 or to any other attack on American citizens or troops, or allied citizens or troops. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: It cannot be compared to Pearl Harbor to Sept 11 or any other attack on American or allied citizens or troops

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A crime — even a crime as vicious as trafficking hard drugs into the United States — is not an act of war. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: A crime is not an act of war

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The president does have authority as commander in chief to respond to immediate military threats, like an armed attack, before a declaration of war, but he is not supposed to initiate new hostilities... 0.950

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

Simplified: The president has authority as commander in chief to respond to immediate military threats before a declaration of war but is not supposed to initiate...

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First, the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war. 0.950

👤 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. 0.950

👤 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. 0.950

👤 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. 0.950

👤 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? 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

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

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Jus in bello refers to conduct within the war. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Jus in bello refers to conduct within the war

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In other words, when is it legal to fight? 0.950

👤 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. 0.950

👤 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. 0.950

👤 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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The targets of lethal force would have to either be in an armed conflict with us or otherwise be threatening a use of force that would justify self-defense. 0.950

👤 Martin Lederman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Military

Simplified: Targets of lethal force would have to be in armed conflict with us or threatening force justifying self-defense

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