Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The Fifth Amendment prohibited the federal government from depriving any person of life without due process of law. Stretching all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215, the term due process had come to mean, at a minimum, the dual requirement of formal notice and the right to be heard before being assassinated or executed. Notice something important about the Fifth Amendment: Its protection applies to ‘persons,’ not just American citizens. … as a practical matter, the conversion to a national-security state operated as a de facto amendment of the Constitution, one that amended the Fifth Amendment — but without a constitutional amendment. Once the conversion took place, the president and his national-security establishment wielded the omnipotent, dark-side power to assassinate anyone they wanted, so long as they determined that the victim posed a threat to ‘national security.'” (10/29/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/29/how-the-federal-government-acquired-the-power-of-assassination/