“Rights” Groups Sue For Boat Strike Justification Memo

These American rights groups never miss an opportunity to defend foreigners, but, I wonder, would they do this if Biden or Kamala were president? Actually, yes. They sued Obama multiple times for drone strikes in foreign nations which killed American citizens who were fighting with ISIS and al Qaeda. Because groups like the ACLU are nuts

Rights groups sue administration for release of memo justifying boat strikes

A group of civil rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration, seeking the release of a legal memo and other documents related to lethal U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of trafficking drugs from Latin America.

The complaint alleges that the nearly two dozen boat strikes carried out since September are illegal and that the public deserves to see how President Donald Trump’s administration has justified them. The strikes have killed at least 87 people.

“The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of civilians as lawful and why it believes it can hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards to people committing these crimes,” Jeffrey Stein, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement Tuesday.

The ACLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to the complaint, the groups filed a freedom of information request with several federal agencies on Oct. 15 seeking the release of a legal opinion from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel. The Washington Post reported that the memo argued the country is in a “non-international armed conflict” with unspecified “drug cartels.”

Last time I checked, none of the drug runners were American citizens. Certainly not citizens of the State of New York. None of them have Constitutional rights. The whole thing is wild that Liberals/Democrats are hanging their hats on defending foreign drug smugglers.

Saying drugs are not bad because Trump is blowing up foreign drug running boats is a hell of a take.