DoJ deemed it ‘unnecessary’ to conclude whether seizing Maduro violated law, memo reveals
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#72TGY)
Memo on US military raid to capture Venezuela's president effectively argued that presidents can blow through UN charter
The Trump administration received approval from the justice department to use the military to seize Nicolas Maduro even as it declined to address whether the operation would violate international law, according to its legal memo released on Tuesday.
The dark-of-night raid to capture Venezuela's president has raised a host of legal issues concerning the president's power to start an armed conflict without congressional approval and possible breaches of international law.
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