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Ted Cruz: “A U.S. arrest abroad, in violation of foreign law, does not…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Likewise here, the DOJ opinion was, even if the UN Charter says something different, as a matter of US Constitutional law, the President can order this. And critically, the bar opinion also concluded that A U.S. arrest abroad, in violation of foreign law, does not violate the Fourth Amendment. And to be clear, the bar opinion was litigated in the Noriega case, and Noriega stayed in jail. So he lost all of those claims. (44:12–44:21)

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Asserts that foreign law violations do not breach the Fourth Amendment in U.S. arrests abroad.

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