Paul to Filibuster Obama Judicial Nominee

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Paul is again standing up for exactly what the anti-war left says they want, but won't do themselves, and he will again assuredly be demonized by them for it for purely partisan reasons because a Democrat is in the White House.

Barron, a Harvard law professor and a former acting assistant attorney general for the Obama administration, authored at least two controversial classified opinions justifying the potential use of a drone strike against American citizens - an effective death sentence - without a trial.

After pressure from several voices in the Senate, including Paul's, the White House agreed to show some of Barron's work to senators.

While acknowledging he could not reveal the contents of the memo, Paul said the documents contained "no valid legal precedent to justify the killing of an American citizen not engaged in combat."

Or, more simply, Paul said, "I am not satisfied."

While the Fifth Amendment forbids the premeditated killing of an American outside of any battlefield, the administration and the Bush administration before it have attempted to extend the definition of what constitutes an immediate and unacceptable threat to United States citizens.

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