Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on December 9 against the Trump administration demanding the release of the memo providing legal justification for U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats.

The lawsuit cites the Freedom of Information Act and says memo’s release is “critically important” to ensure “informed public debate” about the strikes.

Advocacy groups behind the memo include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union.

In a press release about the lawsuit, the ALCU condemned the boat strikes, which have occurred around 20 times and killed more than 80 people .

“The Trump administration is displacing the fundamental mandates of international law with the phony wartime rhetoric of a basic autocra

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