Airstrikes are an act of war. Atrocities in Syria cannot justify departure from Constitution, which vests in Congress power to commence war.
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Why has no POTUS ever been punished for exercising emergency combat option? No challenge b/c Congress afraid of SCOTUS striking down act.
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SCOTUS will not decide a political question like this one.
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That is absurd. They deal with all matters that are written in law.
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For God's sake. You cannot be serious. Ever hear of SCOTUS and Bush Junior's election? I'm done with you. Have a great life.
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(Not to mention the history here: why would anyone think a Democratic congress in '73 would give NIXON a blank check like that?)
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Because they recognized that Nixon would not be POTUS forever? First two war powers acts increased presidential powers, by the way.
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It was to curb POTUS after secret wars in Laos and Cambodia. You can easily find records of the debates from when it passed.pic.twitter.com/YXP6A3VmmN
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Yet no POTUS who used emergency powers has ever been seriously challenged. History of decades & precedent show POTUS has the power. Reality.
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And Congress has the power to hold him in check by censure or impeachment, as they did with Polk in 1848 after he started an illegal war.
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How did that Senate trial turn out? Oh, yeah, it didn't. 1848 prior to 1973 act anyway. This conversation has turned silly. Take care.
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That's because it was a censure, not an impeachment. I really can't compress a full ConLaw/US history education into 140 character tweets.
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