[sowut]

I can't reply to your last comment since it's nested so deep: "Help me understand how you read "courts may not inquire into the President’s motives", then. That's a ruling, by the Supreme Court, that they can not do so in this specific case."

There's scopes to the application of the ruling. An extrajudicial killing of a political opponent certainly falls outside of scope.

[ceejayoz]

> An extrajudicial killing of a political opponent certainly falls outside of scope.

There wasn't all that much fuss when we did it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki.

[sowut]

while i appreciate he was a US citizen, i fail to see how it applies to our conversation

[ceejayoz]

What legal theory makes this offing of a US citizen extrajudicially on national security grounds different?

[sowut]

this is an extreme example that really needs no explanation