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I disagree with Peter Spiro’s take on Section 4 of the draft AUMF.
Section 4 terminates the congressional authorization after 60 (or 90) days, but it does not affirmatively prohibit the President from u...
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Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Gerry Connolly have put forward another draft Syria force authorization. Here are some of the bill's key provisions, beginning with the authorization itself:
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Ben observed last week that in the midst of the most significant war powers debate of this Presidency, many of the top national security legal positions in the Administration remain unfilled.
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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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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 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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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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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...