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by jandrese 717 days ago
What if the President ordered the assassination of the head of a terrorist organization that attempted to overthrow Congress with physical force?
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Not the exact scenario you described, but a similar scenario occurred in the past:

"... al-Awlaki ... was an American-Yemeni lecturer, and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a drone strike from the U.S. government."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki