Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists(nytimes.com)

18 pointsby g-b-rvor 10 Monaten5 comments

Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-drug-cartels-war-authorization.html

5 comments

g-b-rvor 10 Monaten

> “It’s insanely broad,” Professor Goldsmith said. “This is an open-ended war authorization against an untold number of countries, organizations and persons that the president could deem within its scope.”

> The draft appears to be modeled on the broad authorization that Congress granted President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Like that one, it does not name a specific enemy — empowering the president to decide whom to target — and is not confined to geographical limits.

anigbrowlvor 10 Monaten

The USA is turning into a rogue state.

gloyoyovor 10 Monaten

If the internet, and thus, the "addiction" that is claimed by other people to be oppressing the masses is simply labeled a "narcotic" type influence upon a person's wellbeing then, they would then consider it for such offensive action?

g-b-rvor 10 Monaten

https://archive.is/TtiWh

treetalkervor 10 Monaten

So the Sackler family, right?

Right?