美国政府尚未说明针对毒品走私者的打击行动在法律上是如何被正当化的。
The administration has yet to say how the strikes on drug smugglers are legal.
周三，一名联邦法官裁定：美国可能不得不公开这些打击行动的法律依据。
The United States could be forced to release legal justification for boat strikes on drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
特朗普政府以国家安全为由，拒绝公开这些法律依据，并未向公众说明针对那些据称正前往美国的毒品走私者的打击行动的法律依据是什么。
The Trump administration has said the legal justification cannot be released due to national security implications and has not yet told the American public what the legal rationale is for conducting the boat strikes on what they say are drug traffickers headed to the U.S.
根据周三发布的66页判决书，美国地方法官保罗·恩格尔迈耶（Paul Engelmayer）要求政府在两周内提交相关文件，以便通过《信息自由法案》（FOIA）诉讼来决定是否可以公开这些文件。
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer has to first see the document within two weeks, before ruling on whether it can be released to the public through a FOIA lawsuit, he ruled in a 66-page filing on Wednesday.
美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）等组织起诉要求查看司法部法律事务办公室于2025年9月撰写的备忘录，该备忘录实质上为这些有争议的打击行动提供了法律依据。政府在法庭文件中反对公开该备忘录。
The ACLU and other groups sued to see the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel memo written in September 2025, which essentially offers the legal justification for the controversial strikes. The government has argued against the release in court filings.
恩格尔迈耶法官驳回了政府的主张，即公开该文件会违反政府的决策程序及律师与客户之间的保密原则。他写道：“现有证据不足以让法院确信这些机构是否放弃了行使‘总统通信特权’的权利。因此，法院命令这些机构提供相关信息，以便法院能够查明这一事实。”法官还要求司法部详细说明自去年该备忘录制定以来，哪些人看过这份文件。
Judge Engelmayer rejected the administration's claims that releasing the document would violate the deliberative process and attorney-client privilege. "But the existing record does not permit the court to reliably resolve whether the agencies have waived their right to invoke the third (the presidential communications privilege)," he wrote. "The court accordingly orders the agencies to furnish information to enable it to resolve that question." The judge also is requiring the DOJ to give a full accounting of who has seen the memo since its inception last year.
法官指出：“用参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩（Dan Caine）的话来说，即使指挥官没有亲自看过这份备忘录，只要其核心内容已经通过其他方式传达给了他们，他们仍然可以‘严格遵循’备忘录中的指导方针。”
"Using [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan] Caine's locution, it would be possible for a commander to 'rigorously follow' the guidance in the Memo without having seen it, if, for example, its essential conclusions had been communicated by other means," according to the judge.
英格尔迈耶（Engelmayer）还表示，国防部总法律顾问关于该备忘录被存放在其办公室内的“敏感信息保密设施”（SCIF）中的声明“引发的问题比答案更多”。法官指出：“仅仅因为一名军事指挥官需要了解自己职权范围内的法律规范，并不意味着他就可以成为总统的顾问。”
Engelmayer also said the Defense Department general counsel's attestation that the memo is held in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in his office "raises more questions than answers." "The fact that a military commander has a 'need to know' the legal parameters of his authority does not make him a presidential adviser," the judge said.
美国司法部（DOJ）并未立即回应美国广播公司（ABC News）周三提出的关于该法官裁决的评论请求。
The DOJ did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment on the judge's ruling Wednesday.
美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）的律师表示，法官周三作出的裁决“是朝着正确方向迈出的一大步，有助于确保政府不能依据秘密法律随意处决民众。”ACLU律师杰弗里·斯坦（Jeffrey Stein）说：“公众有权了解政府是如何为这些冷血杀害平民的行为找借口的。”
An attorney for the ACLU said the judge's order on Wednesday "is a huge step in the right direction of ensuring that the government does not get to summarily execute people based on secret law." "The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians," ACLU attorney Jeffrey Stein said.