ACLU files lawsuit to stop president from killing terrorist cleric

ACLU files lawsuit to stop president from killing terrorist cleric

The ACLU is at it again.

On August 30, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in D.C. President Obama has authorized U.S. forces to kill on sight Anwar Al-Aulaqi. He’s the U.S.-born radical imam who supposedly lives in Yemen right now, calling for terrorist attacks on American citizens and who’s implicated in the Fort Hood massacre and other terrorist attacks.

The ACLU argues that Al-Aulaqi is an American citizen, and as such the government cannot kill him without arrest, trial, and a conviction by a jury, unless Al-Aulaqi is...