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    1 year ago

    Probably be cause that’s a defacto power the executive branch has claimed and used since at least the Bush era.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. The US has on several occasions extra judicially killed American citizens without due process.

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          1 year ago

          Ok but in context has it ever been used? Specifically to have a political opponent killed by a sitting US president?

          Police (the government) kill people extra-judicially every day, which is different from the POTUS sending Seal Team 6 or whatever to kill their leading opponent for reelection