A judge signed off on the seizure of the Venezuelan tanker!

[imanamerican63]

Was it a Trump appointed judge? I got a dollar to say it was!

[get the red out]

1. Maybe the Judge

got a bit more that your dollar.

[travelingthrulife]

2. Our judicial system is worthless.

So pirating is good! We can take anything we want to.

[Lovie777]

3. This is a international and sovereignty matter..............

I think the judge over stepped.

[gab13by13]

4. Yeah and the fascist Supreme Court gave Krasnov immunity,

that still doesn't make it right.

[jonstl08]

5. Iranian linked

Heard it was linked to Iran smuggling. Iran has its own oil so why would they need a tanker full of Venezuelan oil.

[onenote]

19. It wasn't a tanker full of Venezuelan oil. It contained oil from both Iran and Venezuela.

[C_U_L8R]

6. East Germany had judges too.

Doesn’t mean they’re right.

[DFW]

13. And its predecessor

Look up Roland Freisler.

[31st Street Bridge]

7. The US in a criminal enterprise

From sea to stinking sea.

[haele]

8. Sigh. It was a sanctioned Iranian tanker going to Venezuela.

Technically, it was legal. Unlike shooting fishermen in small boats suspected of drug smuggling.

Hell, navies, including ours, still don't shoot fishermen/suspected pirates off the Horn of Africa until they're clearly identified as being pirates.

[leftstreet]

10. Why does the US have the right to sanction anybody?

Rhetorical question

[haele]

15. Not just the US, a lot of countries have sanctioned Iranian oil for various reasons.

Just as Russian oil and tankers are being sanctioned for their attack on Ukraine.

All that being said, Iran does have the right to protest the seizure and will probably get its ship back.

It's political posturing to hurt the Venezuelan government. And it's generally recognized as being a technically legal way to do so.
Honestly, I'm just waiting for the time it will be used against us.
Give the rest of the world three or four years, if they can hold onto their own economic tatters when we Hindenburg our way into a collapse worse than that of the Soviet Union when it broke apart.

Ya, it's technically legal. Unlike blowing up small boats with fishermen on them because the head of your military is either on a bender or is a dry drunk.

[B.See]

9. file under

PIRACY on the high seas.

[Wounded Bear]

11. And Dubya had lawyers defending torture...

Seems like the RW assholes can find/fund legal assistance when they want it.

[Initech]

12. The entire GOP is in on the treason.

[DFW]

14. Just a few short years ago

The USA used to contribute military aid to stop Somali pirates from seizing oil tankers whose route took them near Somali waters. We used to open fire on pirates that did the same thing we just did.

[Xolodno]

16. What worries me...

...what happens if they try this again but this time, their are Russian, Chinese or both troops mercenaries aboard who fire back?

[Emile]

17. Who is this judge, to judge on something in South America?

[onenote]

18. You just lost a dollar.

The seizure warrant was issued by Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Faruqui was appointed as a magistrate judge in 2020. Magistrate Judges are selected by the active judges on the court -- at the time of his appointment, there were 14 active judges on the court, 10 appointed by Clinton or Obama, four by Trump.

Here is more information about Magistrate Judge Faruqui. https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/Appointment%20of%20Zia%20Mustafa%20Faruqui.pdf