Presidents still have insanely-extensive authority granted by the AUMF from the original batch of "Global War on Terror" (barf) bills. https://en.wikipedia.org

Presidents still have insanely-extensive authority granted by the AUMF from the original batch of "Global War on Terror" (barf) bills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit... Remember when a bunch of people were complaining that tons of that legislation was dangerous crap that handed way too much power to the executive? Yeah, they were 100% right.