What would these two Gulf of Tonkin dissenters say about Congress today?
57 years after Senators Gruening and Morse made their lonely stand, lawmakers are still passively ceding war powers to the president.
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.