The issue focused on the language of a specific filing in a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Department of Justice from killing an American drone program in Yemen that has been operating for more than a year. A year ago the suit in a Maryland federal court asked the court to prohibit the government from transferring drone operations to the Yemen government to execute or apprehend suspected terrorists on American soil, because the transfer would enable the Yemeni government to use the drone program as a basis for unlawful or even unconstitutional punishment of U.S