A bipartisan reform for the first 100 days: A new War Powers Act
I once sued President Obama for making me fight an illegal war. Now it’s time to restore Congress’s war powers.
Nathan Smith is a former Army officer with deployments to Kuwait and Afghanistan. In 2016, while serving in the command headquarters of Operation Inherent Resolve in Kuwait, Nathan became the plaintiff in the lawsuit Smith v. Obama (subsequently Smith v. Trump) alleging violations of the War Powers Resolution due to the lack of specific congressional authorization for the war against ISIS.
I once sued President Obama for making me fight an illegal war. Now it’s time to restore Congress’s war powers.