“How broadly are you asserting the right of the United States to target an American citizen? Where is the limit to this?”
She provided her own answer: “The limit is the courthouse door.”
“No, no, no,” she said. “The executive is not an effective check on the executive.”
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Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States District Court here was
hearing the government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by relatives
of three Americans killed in two drone strikes in Yemen in 2011: Anwar
al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who had joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula; Mr. Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, who had no
involvement in terrorism; and Samir Khan, a 30-year-old North Carolina
man who had become a propagandist for the same Qaeda branch.
Judge Collyer said she was “troubled” by the government’s assertion that
it could kill American citizens it designated as dangerous, with no
role for courts to review the decision.
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