{"id":62049,"date":"2025-10-03T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62049"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:47:34","slug":"if-a-shooting-is-a-seizure-what-about-blowing-up-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62049","title":{"rendered":"If a shooting is a seizure, what about blowing up a boat with people in it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/lawmakers-from-both-sides-pressed-pentagon-on-legal-basis-for-cartel-boat-strikes-a61b9de0?mod=hp_lista_pos2\">Lawmakers From Both Sides Pressed Pentagon on Legal Basis for Drug Boat Strikes<\/a> by Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward, and Siobhan Hughes (&#8220;Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon\u2019s top lawyer in a closed-door meeting to provide a better legal explanation for striking alleged Latin American drug boats in the Caribbean, according to people with knowledge of the matter. In a classified Senate Armed Services Committee briefing Wednesday, the Pentagon general counsel, Earl Matthews, detailed the legal basis for the military\u2019s attacks ordered by President Trump. Matthews repeatedly referred to Trump\u2019s designation of some Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which he said granted the Defense Department unilateral authority to use military force against them, some of the people said. Matthews refused to provide a written justification for the strikes, which legal experts say is necessary for transparency and accountability.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: Lawmakers From Both Sides Pressed Pentagon on Legal Basis for Drug Boat Strikes by Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward, and Siobhan Hughes (&#8220;Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon\u2019s top lawyer in a closed-door meeting to provide &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62053,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62049\/revisions\/62053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}