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The House has passed the National Defense Authorization Act, in a 322-96 vote. Ninety-five Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the bill, while six Republicans voted against final passage.
Rep. Just...
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I have received two interesting responses to my post from last night suggesting tweaks to the AUMF reauthorization language.
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I'm in the midst of grading exams for my National Security Law class, and keep finding myself thinking that I should have assigned the draft AUMF language in the NDAA FY12 bill as the basis for an essay ...
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Politico has two pieces today of interest to Lawfare readers. The first is a lengthy Josh Gerstein & Charles Hoskinson analysis of this week's debate in the House on revising the AUMF. The second, an op-...
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Last Thursday the Washington Post editorial page opined that President Obama should either seek congressional authorization for the military actions in Libya, or “should inform Congress and the public ab...
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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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Over the dissent of Justices Breyer and Sotomayor (no separate opinions), the Supreme Court today denied cert. in Khadr v.