"Asked if there were any restraints on his global powers, [President Trump] answered: "Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me." "I don't need international law." EXPERT OPINION - Nicholas Maduro's fate seems sealed: he will stand trial for numerous violations of federal criminal long-arm statutes and very likely spend decades as an inmate in the Federal Bureau of Prisons."
"How this U.S. military operation that resulted in his apprehension is legally characterized has and will continue to be a topic of debate and controversy. Central to this debate have been two critically significant international law issues. First, was the operation conducted to apprehend him a violation of the Charter of the United Nations? Second, did that operation trigger applicability of the law of armed conflict?"
"The Trump administration has invoked the memory of General Manuel Noriega's apprehension following the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, Operation Just Cause, in support of its assertion that the raid into Venezuela must be understood as nothing more than a law enforcement operation. But this reflects an invalid conflation between a law enforcement objective with a law enforcement operation. Suggesting Operation Just Cause supports the assertion that this raid was anything other than an international armed conflict reflects a patently false analogy."
President Trump stated that only his own morality and mind restrain his powers and declared he did not need international law. Nicholas Maduro was apprehended and faces likely federal prosecution under long-arm statutes, with potential decades in federal prison. Legal characterization of the U.S. military operation that captured Maduro remains contested, focusing on whether the operation violated the UN Charter and whether it triggered the law of armed conflict. The Trump administration likened the operation to General Manuel Noriega's 1989 apprehension in Panama, but critics call that analogy invalid and argue the Panama precedent must be properly understood.
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