Endless War Critic Trump Deploys US on New Front: Iran/Yemen

That killing of the US citizen terrorist in Yemen was probably part of the reason for the the recent tortured and potentially disastrous SCOTUS decision that basically said the president can’t commit a crime if it’s official business

 

Lot of the arguments for killing him (rather than attempting to capture and put on trial i.e due process) not dissimilar to Trump admin's on getting Kilmar back and dealing with potential deportees ("its too hard to give everyone a trial, and too late in the case of Kilmar"). Looks like the government has learned that if they call people terrorists and claim extraordinary emergency powers, they can get away with just about anything. Exactly the warnings civil libertarians raised at the time. Putting someone in a legal blackhole like CECOT is just about close to killing them where they cant do anything about it ex post facto.