The damage would be colossal. Not only would it almost irretrievably cede to the Executive Branch the most fundamental power that Congress has under Article I of the Constitution--...
The President would have unilateral authority to add additional countries--including the United States itself--to the li...
I say, 'Well, that is one check, but that is not the'--we have a check on the initiation of war and then on the continua...
A President with one-third plus one in either House can wage war on any target at any time the President chooses to do s...
There is no reason for Congress to risk it.
I would argue that the AUMFs are unconstitutional because they do not have an endpoint.
The Corker-Kaine AUMF would authorize force, without operational limitations, against eight groups in six countries.
the top priority for this Senate must be to ensure that S.J. Res. 59, the Corker-Kaine AUMF, does not become law.
Authorization was not given for a global war on 'terror' or against radical Islamists or separatists or insurgents in va...
The President does not have that authority.
My father used to always say there were two things you rarely heard in Washington, and that was either a moral argument ...