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The draft Senate Syria AUMF contains a narrower authorization for the use of presidential force than the one the administration proposed. But it is in some respects still broad, and it actually enhances...
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The would-be Syria AUMF---which is evidently still subject to markup in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee---can be found here. As for key provisions, readers will be interested in the draft's secon...
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It's happening right now, and you can tune in via the SFRC's livestream. The afternoon's three witnesses: Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and General Martin Dempsey, the...
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There is an apparent disconnect between the White House’s strategic goals in Syria and the draft AUMF it sent to Congress last week---though negotiations in Congress appear to be addressing the issue.
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I recently posted my new paper on The Constitutional Power to Threaten War (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). The basic idea is that existing debate and legal scholarship about constitutional war powers f...
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First, of course, to Syria.
Republican Senator John McCain has announced his support of our intervening in Syria; read the New York Times ("times" two) and
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Politico reports that a revised Syria AUMF is being drafted in the Senate:
Some of the options being considered for the revised Authorization for the Use of Military Force include a 60-day period for Oba...
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As we approach the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it seems like an appropriate t...
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We had an enormous traffic surge today---thanks to a link to one of Jack's posts from the front page of Huffington Post. More than 18,000 people have been on Lawfare this morning, a fact which offers a g...
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As Congress moves to debate authorization for the use of force in Syria, and especially since there is some question about whether DOD has adequate funding for a strike in Syria, Congress may want to pon...
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Happy Labor Day to all. The world's not taking a news break, so neither are we.
This morning, the Associated Press cites a U.N. official who says that 5 million Syrians have been displaced by the civil ...
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One claim that is being made about President Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization for military action in Syria is that it is likely to weaken the authority of the presidency with respect ...
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A few items that are in my opinion worth a read:
Opinio Juris is having an insta-symposium on Syria. I recommend in particular Marty Lederman’s two posts on the relevance of the U.N.
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Over the next week we are going to see a lot of debate about the substantive scope of the Syria/WMD AUMF, much of it directed at whether the administration's draft or other draft language might end up be...
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Three years ago today, Jack, Bobby and I launched Lawfare. On its launch, it had no staff, three writers, and a grand total of nine visits.
I think it's safe to say that while all three of us expected t...
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Via Ilya Somin at Volokh, I see that the administration has proffered its proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for Syria. Now it is Congress’s turn to decide what proposal(s) it w...
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Courtesy of my old friend Steve Renaker---computer programmer, maker of harpsichords, and menace to toy helicopters everywhere. Steve writes on Facebook about this video, "Office hijinks for the day---sh...
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Peter Spiro at OJ, and David Rothkopf of FP whom he cites, both say that President Obama’s request for congressional authorization for Syria will allow Congress to hamstring future Presidents from using ...
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My Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel, who directs the institution's Intelligence Project following a 30-year career in the CIA, writes in with the following comments on President Obama's speech this after...