Justice Department tells Congress Trump doesn’t need its approval for military strikes on alleged drug boats

A senior Justice Department official has told Congress that the Trump administration can continue lethal militar…
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Trump’s Secret Plan to Expand Presidential Immunity To ‘King George’ Levels

Trump and his allies are planning to expand presidential immunity to ‘King George’ levels if he beats Joe Biden in the 2024 election.

Rolling Stone

I can’t wait until someone gets the bright idea to train an #LLM on the corpus of #UnitedStates #OfficeofLegalCounsel memos.

“ChatOLC, write me a memo supporting something ridiculously cruel and legally dicey.”

Maybe #ChatOLC should be #JohnYoo’s new nickname.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/20/judging-in-secret-office-of-legal-counsel-jameel-jaffer/

Judging in Secret | Jameel Jaffer

In the fall of 1954 the director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), James V. Bennett, asked Warren E. Burger, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil

The New York Review of Books
For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions https://boingboing.net/2018/04/14/secret-public-bombings.html #justicemustnotbeseentobedone #officeoflegalcounsel #transparency #trumpism #secrecy #potus #syria #Post
For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions

For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions

Boing Boing