I posted on the bad place that kidnapping/arresting the leader of a foreign government is illegal.
Someone has asked me "as a legal nerd, why don't we have authority to arrest people in other countries?"
And... just... what a wild question. I'm so frustrated by the framing and the ridiculousness of it. It's the wrong question. We should be asking: who gives us the authority to arrest people in another sovereign nation?
I mean... tell me if I'm wrong. But this is a violation of international law and the sovereignty of Venezuela, right?
And it's a violation of US law as most presidents have said they don't have the authority to act without congressional approval.
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