{"id":62677,"date":"2026-01-03T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62677"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:12:26","slug":"wapo-u-s-capture-of-maduro-may-be-illegal-that-likely-wont-matter-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62677","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that likely won\u2019t matter in court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/01\/03\/maduro-indictment-drugs-international-law\/\">U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that likely won\u2019t matter in court<\/a> by Perry Stein<br \/>and Shayna Jacobs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro\u2019s capture and indictment have drawn protests from some lawmakers and scholars, who say international law does not allow President Donald Trump to unilaterally attack a foreign country and bring its leader to the U.S. to face charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even those critics, however, concede that under Supreme Court precedent, those arguments are unlikely to have much impact on federal legal proceedings once Maduro gets to U.S. court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Remember Manuel Noriega&#8217;s arrest in Panama in 1990?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that likely won\u2019t matter in court by Perry Steinand Shayna Jacobs:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62677","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=62677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62680,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62677\/revisions\/62680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}