LINDSEY REISER:
00:02:20
What are you calling on Congress to do? Well, Congress put a stop to the boat strikes and prevent further strikes on land. The administration has signaled that it intends to carry on a strike campaign on land as well, and Congress can do that by exercising the ultimate war power, the power of the purse. Impose funding cutoffs on the boat strikes and funding prohibitions for any further unauthorized hostilities on land.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:02:43
You mentioned that this violates several criminal statutes. I mean, do you foresee any other legal action taken other than the lawsuits that have been filed, and what would that even look like? Who would take that legal action? So there's two civil suits in the courts at the moment. As you noted at the outset, there is a civil suit with respect to wrongful death allegations brought by two of the families. There's also a suit brought by the ACLU seeking the secret Department of Justice permission slip that enables these strikes. But I actually think the relevant place to expect pushback here is not in the courts. It is Congress. It is. Congress's war powers that are being usurped here, Congress's criminal statutes that are being violated here. And so the question is whether Congress is actually going to execute its constitutional responsibilities, conduct robust oversight of these strikes, and bring them to a halt.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:03:32
Brian Finucane, thank you for your time.
