American Judge Says "Democracy Is Broken” as Court Declines to Oversee Drone Killing

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Published by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 6:43am

Reprieve

A senior judge has today described American democracy as "broken" and Congressional oversight a "joke" in failing to check the US drone killing program.

In a concurring opinion in the DC Court of Appeals case Jaber v. Trump, Judge Janice Rogers Brown appears troubled that the law prevents her court from acting as a check on potential executive war crimes. Calling drone strikes an "outsized power," she questioned who would be left to keep them in check.