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ACLU called the administration's vessel-strike campaign unlawful and sought greater oversight

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Use of force
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Civil-liberties legal assessment

The ACLU's publication is an advocacy and legal-analysis position, not a judicial ruling. It questioned whether suspected drug-smuggling vessels could lawfully be treated as military targets outside a recognized armed conflict.

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  1. — ACLU (Civil-liberties legal analysis)

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ACLU called the administration's vessel-strike campaign unlawful and sought greater oversight. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2025-12-18-boat-strikes-legal-challenge/

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