Remember Vietnam?
The president has the power to deploy the military even without a declaration
This is why Congress passed the War Powers Resolution. It’s an open question whether the law matters.
Every President says they are not constrained, Congress says that they are. The Supreme Court says, “this is a political question, not a legal question, so the executive and legislative have to sort it out”.
The Supreme Court lied when they said that btw
Then it’s no longer a constitutional problem, I think the poster should know better
In the sense that if you take power you don’t deserve you have it
Diaper Don gonna order brown people to get bombed so he 'looks like a tough man".
Fuck that guy and everyone who voted for him. Or chose not to vote. Fuck you even more.
There is absolutely ZERO reason to believe that those who didnt vote would have voted for Harris. In fact, every person I know who didnt vote are trump defenders. Every one. Every. Single. One.
Fuck you even more.
I’ve never understood this pov. Sure you can say no vote was the same thing as a vote for trump, but surely the people that actually voted for him are worse, no? I can understand ‘fuck you just as much’, but even more?
It’s the apathy, or the belief that it somehow doesn’t matter. To quote Walter Sobchak:
Nihilists, fuck me. Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos.
“Looks like a tough man”. Is this really the level of political comprehension we’re working with? No wonder you idiots elected a fascist. Are all of you 12? Go back to playing fortnight.
Went thru the same shit with Bush 20 years ago.
Indeed. Congress had 20 years to put up some guard rails, but didn’t.
Come on it is not a war, but a special military operation…
A “Police Action.”
The constitution means nothing. Trump wipes his ass with it and there’s no consequences
SCOTUS ignored common law practice and decided to go literal with the interpretation of a document written 200 years ago
OMG that’s hilarious. We haven’t declared war since WWII. But how many presidents have done just that? Good luck with that argument.
Unfortunately our Constitution isn’t worth the paper its gift shop reproductions are printed on. Unfortunately, it’s been that way for a long, long time.
Ummm, has that ever stopped any president, ever?
He’s not wrong. Definition of genocide and war crimes are also pretty clearly enshrined. As are our countries laws against funding them.
yhea, Have you seen the news?
rule of law is dead in the US
“I don’t care what that old paper says” -Trump
Impeach Trump #NOKINGS
The POTUS has a window of discretion where he can act unilaterally without congressional approval. And they ALL have done so over many terms.
The hard stop is when congress needs to appropriate funds to pay for the war/police action.
Maybe we need to take away those powers and put Congress in control.
Perhaps. Until there is a real crisis that does require immediate action. There is no good answer here. Have a window of discretion, or be unable to trigger action and get innocent people killed due to inaction.
Which do you prefer?
2/3 of Congress is owned by AIPAC so it wouldn’t make a difference anyway.
Even if we ignore the fact that he can easily coax our useless congress into agreeing, the entire government has done nothing but dance around this requirement ever since the end of WWII. You won’t see a congressional declaration of war unless its literally WWIII.
And people really think congress wouldnt vote for war? Lol…
And if they do so be it, it’s just a consequence of our representational democracy, however, it is their decision.
Seems pretty epicly pointless to try to force a vote against Israel’s interests in the US congress. It will be unanimously shot down, like every other bill that Israel has any interest in… Sanders know this. So why is he pretending a vote in congress is the big goal that we need to make noise about?
Sanders wont even call the war on Palestine a genocide. If he wants to actually do something effective here he should be forcing AIPAC to be registered as a foreign lobby, like JFK tried to do right before he was assassinated. Otherwise Bernie is just wasting everyone’s time, and keeping the left busy yelling for a vote to happen that we have absolutely zero chance of winning.
