Should the Senate pass the Cruz, Paul drone bill?

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44. I dislike the suggestion the President has the right to kill unless Congress intervenes

The President, of course, has never claimed any right to blow away whomsoever he wants, and if he begins acting as if he has has lost his mind, there is more than one legal way to remove him from power, temporarily or permanently. Should he actually attempt cold-blooded murder of someone in a foreign country, there would be an enormous diplomatic response; and should he attempt the cold-blooded murder of an American on American soil, I think we may safely say that he would be impeached and removed from office and would very likely face criminal prosecution

It is perfectly clear that the President is not to be regarded as above the law, though he does have various powers most of us do not have, and it is perfectly clear that this particular President does not regard himself as being above the law

It is an extraordinarily bad idea for Congress to single out and enumerate a few particular things the President generally cannot do, especially when those are things everyone already agrees the President generally cannot do -- because that very act of enumerating will suggest that those few things are the only things forbidden to the President