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The so-called "Hague invasion act" allows the US President to use "any means necessary" to release any US citizen from custody by the International Criminal Cou

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > This, technically, gives the President the power to invade the Netherlands without getting (further) approval from Congress. Insofar as it does that, it gives the President the authority to wage open ended war anywhere on the planet as long as a US citizen is held by the ICC, since the President has sole discretion to determine what means are necessary. OTOH, that provision is also arguably an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power with no effect whatsoever, since if it delegates anything less than the ability to do anything Congress could allow it isn't specified. On the gripping hand, the War Powers Act already allows the President to wage war to get a US citizen released from the ICC (and for almost any other reason) anywhere on the planet as long as they ask Congress before too long after starting the war.