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‘No Blank Check for War’: House Votes to Bar Trump Military Action on Iran…

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On Thursday the Democratic-led House passed legislation to stop funding for military action in Iran and to repeal the 2002 war authorization for Iraq — which multiple administrations have based unilateral military actions on without the approval of Congress. Predictably, Trump has threatened to veto both bills amid an ongoing struggle in which doves in […]

Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Trump for War…

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It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all […]

House Panel Votes to Force Congress to Vote on War Against Islamic State…

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The House Appropriations Committee, in a surprise move, adopted an amendment Thursday offered by leading anti-war Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) that would force Congress to vote on a new authorization for the battle against the Islamic State. The amendment, which passed by voice vote, would repeal within 240 days of the enactment of appropriations for […]

Conflicts Justified Under the 2001 AUMF, Ranked…

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Of all the weapons the United States carries in its military arsenal, its most powerful might be the 2001 congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force. The post-9/11 blank check to fight evildoers covers everything: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iraq-Syria, Syria, the other thing we’re doing in Syria now, and a bunch of stuff in between. […]

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