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Sep 30
35m 32s

The Legality of Trump's Drug-Boat Strike...

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
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Matt Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy and Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia University sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the legality of the Trump administration's military strikes against drug traffickers and the implications for U.S. foreign policy.

 

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James Madison, “Federalist No. 51,” The Federalist Papers

 

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