A US court on Wednes­day heard ar­gu­ments from at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing two Trinida­di­an men who are su­ing the Unit­ed States over the deaths of their loved ones dur­ing US at­tacks on sus­pect­ed drug car­tels in the re­gion last year.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tion­al Rights (CCR), the case is be­ing heard in the South­ern Dis­trict of New York. The CCR, along with the Amer­i­can Civ­il Lib­er­ties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civ­il Lib­er­ties Union (NY­CLU), has sued the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to com­pel the re­lease of the le­gal ad­vice it re­lied on to jus­ti­fy air strikes against al­leged crim­i­nals des­ig­nat­ed as nar­co-ter­ror­ists.

Wednes­day’s hear­ing was lim­it­ed to the law­suit against the Of­fice of Le­gal Coun­sel (OLC) over its le­gal opin­ion, which the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­ly­ing on to jus­ti­fy and gov­ern its cam­paign of lethal strikes on civil­ian boats in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters. The Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) law­suit forms part of a broad­er le­gal chal­lenge brought by the rel­a­tives of Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Sama­roo, 41.