• lumettaria@sopuli.xyz
    203·
    3 days ago

    Isn’t war something that needs to go through congress? On top of that, isn’t this an international joint operation between two nations that DEFINITELY would need to go through congress? Doesn’t matter? Okay.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      Congress gave the president the power to wage an unlimited amount of war so long as troops are removed by the 90 day mark. Even then if troops are gone before the court rules, it doesn’t matter either, as was ruled under Clinton.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      3 days ago

      Constitutionally, war should go through congress.

      But we haven’t followed the constitution in a very long time, obviously… decades

      that’s what makes someone like Trump possible, and here we are.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        we haven’t followed the constitution in a very long time

        But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

        ~ Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority