{"id":62097,"date":"2025-10-09T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62097"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:29:23","slug":"reason-the-constitution-does-not-allow-the-president-to-unilaterally-blow-suspected-drug-smugglers-to-smithereens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62097","title":{"rendered":"Reason: The Constitution Does Not Allow the President To Unilaterally Blow Suspected Drug Smugglers to Smithereens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reason: The Constitution Does Not Allow the President To Unilaterally Blow Suspected Drug Smugglers to Smithereens<\/a> by Sen. Rand Paul (“Somewhere off the coast of Venezuela, a speedboat with 11 people on board is blown to smithereens. Vice President J.D. Vance announces that ‘killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.’ When challenged that killing citizens without due process is a war crime, the vice president responded that he ‘didn’t give a shit.’ Sometimes in fits of anger, loud voices will say they don’t care about niceties such as due process\u2014they just want to kill bad guys. For a brief moment, all of us may share that anger and may even embrace revenge or retribution. But over 20,000 people are murdered in the U.S. each year, and yet somehow we find a way to a dispassionate dispensation of justice that includes legal representation for the accused and jury trial.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYTimes: Colombia\u2019s President Says Boat Bombed by U.S. Was Carrying Colombians<\/a> by
Julie Turkewitz & Robert Jimison (\u201cThe Trump administration has said that it is attacking boats and killing their occupants because they are smuggling drugs from Venezuela to the United States.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reason: The Constitution Does Not Allow the President To Unilaterally Blow Suspected Drug Smugglers to Smithereens by Sen. Rand Paul (“Somewhere off the coast of Venezuela, a speedboat with 11 people on board is blown to smithereens. Vice President J.D. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62103,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62097\/revisions\/62103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}