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Doesn't the president require a Congress approval for this sort of military action?
by eps 9mo ago
Doesn't the president require a Congress approval for this sort of military action?
- voidfunc 9mo agoNo. War Powers Resolution of 1973.
- JohnFen 9mo agoWhich has been a terrible law in need of repeal since the moment it was enacted.
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoDoesn't matter because who's going to check them? SCOTUS? No. COTUS? No. Unitary executive theory = plenary powers, e.g., they're a king in all but name surrounded by political loyalists with their hands on every lever of power that matters.
- einsteinx2 9mo agoI think the president only needs permission from Congress to officially declare war (or rather only Congress can declare war), but the president is commander in chief of the US military and can do, for lack of a better term, “special military operations” without any approval (all joking aside, I think it means the president can always order military action just can’t declare war against another country, and I don’t believe the US has declared war on Venezuela).