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Ever since my exchange with Daphne Eviatar and Bobby's post last night, I have been wondering if there's an easy tweak to Rep. Buck McKeon's AUMF reaffirmation language. Specifically, could Rep. McKeon m...
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Further to this post on the President's letter to Congress (and its significance in light of the War Powers Resolution, or "WPR"), here are two recent and quite post-worthy developments regarding militar...
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I confess that I'm a bit bewildered by the aggressiveness of the Statement of Administration Policy on the NDAA--about which Bobby just posted. As Bobby notes, the administration seems to be threatening ...
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Very interesting. The six-page Statement of Administration Policyrelating to HR 1540, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, is here. There are many objections, requests, and veto...
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I join Ben in welcoming Marty Lederman back to blogging. His initial post--parsing both international and domestic legal issues relating to the UBL operation--is typically thorough and insightful (not t...
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On Friday, the New York Times published the text of President Obama's letter to Congress, regarding the use of force in Libya. (Over at Opinio Juris, Peter Spiro has posted a discussion of the letter'...
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There is much discussion today about the apparent decision of the Obama Administration to ignore the provision in the War Powers Resolution that requires that the President either terminate the use of mi...
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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has penned this letter to House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon on the latter's proposed AUMF rewrite.
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Adam Serwer responds to my post of last night:
I think any objective evaluation of the facts has to conclude that U.S. military operations against al Qaeda outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan represent "...
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No sooner had I finished my last post than I came across this elegant little argument from Adam Serwer:
I think Wittes is right that the original AUMF contained no . . . temporal or geographic constraints.
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I have a fair bit to say in response to Daphne Eviatar's comments from earlier today concerning my post about yesterday's New York Times editorial. Let me start with a brief comment about Daphne's compla...
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In yesterday's Washington Post, Professors Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway editorialized about the "Death of the War Powers Act."
Their piece is provocative, in part because it suggests that the execut...