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Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

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" prolific litigator who abuses the court " that's from Judge Boasberg. The SC was never intended to arbitrate a courts final verdict or indefinitely delay one from taking place. To do so conflicts with the notion of a speedy trial to benefit both the interests of the defense and public ( jurors ).

I think SCOTUS will bail him out. But I don’t think he can pardon a future prosecution that hasn’t happened yet. His power will end, hopefully sooner rather than later, & the resulting power vacuum will cause the GOP to implode because they don’t have a real platform.

The MAGA twats on SCOTUS will go down with their sinking ship. They've been poking holes in it for long enough, it's all they know. This includes John Roberts who likes to pretend he is above MAGA shit, well, no he's not. He's enabled ALL of it.

Why aren’t elected officials, basically the only ones who have any authority to hold lawbreaking Administration officials accountable, doing something. They go on interviews and say what we all say, but we the people only have elections to say what we feel. Yes, protests are an option. That’s it.

They've ignored Israel's war crimes for years. They've ignored their own war crimes for years. This won't be any different until you pull yourselves away from your screens and start to do something.

Please do hold Hegseth accountable for murder! It’s time to fight back against fascism and totalitarianism. Also against tRump’s grift—murdering fishermen for (unlikely) drug trafficking while pardoning a major drug lord—no doubt for a fat, juicy bribe!

The principle was established in the days of piracy patrols. Stop a vessel, search and, if anything suspicious, escort into port for further examination and possible trial. If a vessel does not stop then, after due warning, opening fire is permitted, probably starting with a shot across the bows.

These responses elevated specific incidents to the level of principles of the rule of law, accountability, and the value of life, maintaining political composure while clearly conveying the core stance.

Can someone explain to me why one incident puts the whole group of asylum seekers, and not only from afghanistan in doubt about their motivations and actions, even when having been vetted before? Its just another scapegoat maneuver, enhancing fear and hatred of immigrants.

The CIA and/or FBI did a fantastic job, proving the President of a Central American country helped drugs get into the US, getting him convicted. Pardon him? WTF! That guy was in a position to hide big bucks in secret accounts. Did he use any of that to buy a pardon? Investigate it Congress. PLEASE!

*held in prison. JFC, just come out and say it-he’s a murderer, and he deserves to be in prison. Tap dancing around murdering 80+ people is not helpful right now.

Get this America. Maggot Trump is using the United States Navy to commit mass murder! Let that sink in. Government sanctioned mass murder. And the #GOPPEDOPARTY will do nothing to stop it!

Hold them all to account. Suggest you start with the Jan 6th traitors and keep going until Hegseth murderer and his boss are held responsibile USA is clearly a Banana Republic under Trump, take it back and give them the BR justice they deserve

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The US is not a member of the ICC, and officially does not recognize it's authority. The only way to get them to the ICC is to arrest them in a member country. And such an arrest would be considered illegitimate by the United States.

All the retired generals tracked down by media groups have said the same thing These are war crimes. Wouldn’t all the boats civilians killed by a military drone would also be war crimes. I would probably guess Mr. HEDGEHOG has committed other crimes. murder being one. He does not have full immunity

I am hoping that the allegations are somehow not true. It's outside the realm of just illegal orders from the top down to and including the pilots and the world is watching the enormity of what the US does. If true what if a Court Martial doesn't convict?

This reminds me of the debates around video games and violent films causing increasingly violent crimes. Are we actually seeing the results of the kids in the 80s/90s playing/watching them such as the likes of Hegseth treating real life as such?

Power loves power. The military isn't there to protect US citizens or residents or the world. We'll have to disband all branches, CBP, ICE and much of state and local police and just start completely over. Clearly oaths mean nothing.

In addition to Hegseth, bring charges against every military personnel involved to set an example that nobody will escape accountability for following illegal orders. Trump can pardon his way out of it, but that’s a risky take given he’s on verge of dying naturally or being removed from office.

When the fuck is Donald going to be held accountable? Everyone else is suffering while he is living large, golfing, throwing lavish parties, destroying the WH robbing us of life & liberty. Name calling, insults and declaring his hatred for us. Using the presidency for his profit and our pain.

Evidently, since Donnie's 2nd term we are NOT a nation of laws. We are ruled by hardened criminals who enjoy killing and harming citizens and a justice system who could care less about human rights or the rule of law. dead mothers and children make them chuckle.

Fine words... Has anyone declared these to be extrajudicial killings on the high sea... Has anyone filed a lawsuit... Has anyone reported the GOLDEN CALF and the "pentagon's" YOSEMITE SAM to the International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice...

That was the old way. Now it’s consequences are for not ultra rich. Even middle and upper middle class are so far removed from the billionaires, they are like a different species entirely. Most just don’t know it yet.

Folks keep wanting to make distinctions like "middle class" and "upper middle class," and I don't really see the point of that because, from THEIR perspective, there's no practical difference between you and a homeless guy with a spray bottle trying to earn a few coins by providing a "service."

If Democrats had any interest in actually saving this country, helping immigrants or people being blown out of the water, they would be running on that right now…. The consequences that these people will face for what they’ve done. Maybe it would make some of them think twice, but we’ll never know.

Herein lies the death of rule of law. Millions of us are essentially pleading with you, watching the folks tending to farms have their rights to due process trammeled without cause while the rapers of public trusts impoverish society at large, bankrupting unlucky investors walk free with impunity.

Bush and Cheney thoroughly discredited the idea of fighting a "global war on terror." You can't declare war on a tactic. But Trump's claim that drug smuggling is the equivalent of terror distorts even that flimsy idea beyond recognition. And killing civilians in international water is murder.

trump breaks the law every day. extorting ukraine, accepting bribes from multiple countries, using ice as secret police kidnapping people based entirely on their race, installing unqualified morons for AG, DOJ, even the supreme court is loaded with unqualified loyalists. DO SOMETHING.

The next president should facilitate the extradition of everybody in the chain of command that took part in this crime. From the CIC down to at least hegseth and the generals/admirals who planned it, including civilians like miller

Yes, these are war crimes and should be tried at The Hague! I don't give a flying F if they are smuggling cocaine into the Caribbean islands or the US. No one has the right to be judge jury & executioner. No president or PM can arbitrarily blow up boats & kill the occupants in international waters!

It’s fuckin MURDER PERIOD. This administration hasn’t even presented evidence to assure us that these who have been blown to bits are actually drug smugglers. How stupid do they think we are ? Besides two being released to their home countries??? No WAY do I think any of this is FACTUAL

“How STUPID do they think we are?” Well allegedly 77 Million people stupidity VOTED for that 34 Count Felon & Seditious Traitor to our Constitution by inciting his J6 Insurrection. Not to mention all his involvement in the Epstein Files & sexually assaulting women.

A retired JAG officer on Glenn Kirschner's YouTube said KegsBreath should be impeached and removed and the field commanders should be court-martialed. He wasn't fit to serve in the first place and they should know better.

He is totally right, they have never provided information to the American public that they actually had drugs on those boats so we have to form our opinion from the constant lack of respect for the American people this administration gives.

Right. No evidence was presented to any court anywhere, by an administration that claims to go after hundreds of 'gang members' which turns out to mean NOT ONE. Oh, and we don't have a death penalty for drug crimes.

Well, at the risk of being accused of being biased, I would say that to the contrary, trump would only "go after drug dealers" if they weren't part of some scam he was running. I am trying to figure out how to get people to read a very interesting book called Houise of trump, House of Putin.

No one in the diabolical regime is going to be held accountable as long as Americans keep choosing comfort and convenience over full scale resistance. There should be no business as usual while a Fascist regime digs its claws into our democracy. No justice, no peace.

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