Now that the US war in Afghanistan is over, it’s time to revisit war powers
Congress has abdicated its constitutional role, helping mire the US in endless conflicts around the world.
Congress has abdicated its constitutional role, helping mire the US in endless conflicts around the world.
These members bucked their parties and risked alienation (and primaries), but stood their ground on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The next step — passing the full Congress — seems closer than ever, which would end a 20-year-run for this much abused authority.
Senators Sanders, Lee, and Murphy have teamed up again, putting teeth into oversight of arms sales and interventions.
Heavily redacted classified DOJ memo shows the legal contortions used to justify the 2020 assassination.
57 years after Senators Gruening and Morse made their lonely stand, lawmakers are still passively ceding war powers to the president.
Republican lawmaker wants a repeal of the ‘blank check’ 2002 AUMF, calling the president’s war powers “disturbingly broad.”
The last four years have given us a real-life lesson in presidentialism run amok. It didn’t start with Trump but it can end with him.
The past almost 20 years provide good evidence that our bomb-first-ask-hard-questions-never approach to violence and security challenges has not made us or the world safer.