When President Obama decided sometime during his first term that he
wanted to be able to use unmanned aerial drones in foreign lands to kill
people -- including Americans -- he instructed Attorney General Eric
Holder to find a way to make it legal -- despite the absolute
prohibition on governmental extra-judicial killing in federal and state
laws and in the Constitution itself.
"Judicial killing" connotes a lawful execution after an indictment, a jury trial, an appeal and all of the due process protections that the Constitution guarantees defendants. "Extra-judicial killing" is a targeted killing of a victim by someone in the executive branch without due process. The president wanted the latter, and he wanted it in secret.
He must have hoped his killing would never come to light, because the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution could not be more direct: "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law."
http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2014/04/24/a-legal-way-to-kill-n1828294?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
"Judicial killing" connotes a lawful execution after an indictment, a jury trial, an appeal and all of the due process protections that the Constitution guarantees defendants. "Extra-judicial killing" is a targeted killing of a victim by someone in the executive branch without due process. The president wanted the latter, and he wanted it in secret.
He must have hoped his killing would never come to light, because the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution could not be more direct: "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law."
http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2014/04/24/a-legal-way-to-kill-n1828294?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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