Posted on 04/25/2024 4:15:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that droning American citizens is permissible because Obama’s DOJ said so, whereas questioning election results isn’t OK because the government also says so.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the scope of presidential immunity after special counsel Jack Smith alleged that former President Donald Trump should be tossed in jail for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh posed a series of hypotheticals to DOJ attorney Michael Dreeben about the scope of presidential authority, asking whether Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon in 1976 could have been investigated for obstruction of justice “on the theory that [Ford was] interfering with the investigation of Richard Nixon.”
Dreeben suggested that particular case would fall under “presidential responsibilities that Congress cannot regulate.”
“How about President Obama’s drone strikes?” Kavanaugh asked.
“So the Office of Legal Counsel looked at this very carefully and determined that, number one, the federal murder statute does apply to the executive branch,” Dreeben said. “The president wasn’t personally carrying out the strike, but the aiding and abetting laws are broad, and it determined that a public authority exception that’s built into statutes and that applied particularly to the murder statute, because it talks about unlawful killing, did not apply to the drone strike.”
“So this is actually the way that the system should function. The Department of Justice takes criminal law very seriously,” Dreeben continued. “It runs it through the analysis very carefully with established principles. It documents them. It explains them. And then the president can go forward in accordance with it. And there is...”
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I did this video in late, 2021,
If short on time, advise us if your answer to the QUESTION posed at 6:40 would be the same NOW as it was 9 months into the Obozo/Biden freak show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT34_Xdfyyo
Just like our founding fathers risking their lives, wealth and safety to take on the British for Freedom and Liberty, we will probably be called upon to do the same, but only a few will be willing. Our only saving grace is our Lord and Savior who still looks upon his flock and jealously protects them, not to say we won’t incur any infliction of oppression or death, but we know we will be revenged.
Dark clouds are building on the horizon and we all must be vigilant and be ready to stand tall against evil.
As a side note as a retired USAF veteran the oath I took upon enlisting and with each reenlistment still stands.
Drones for Democracy!
Nothing new about politicians droning on, I suppose.
If it’s okay to murder American citizens by drone, why wouldn’t it be okay to murder American citizens in other ways? Droning is just a method.
No way should any of that be permitted by the Constitution.
I remember reading somewhere that approx. 3% of the population took up arms during the Revolution. Today we have approx. 300 million people in this country (if you don’t count the illegals). 3% of 300 million is 9 million. Even half of that is a very big number. That said, maybe I am too optimistic.
Just like military service very few citizens are willing to sacrifice for their country and unfortunately we will it again if we need to take a stand to protect our Constitutional Republic, freedoms and liberties. A lot is at stake today and we need GOD’s blessing.
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