10.15.2014

Making W look good (well, sorta)

Lawfare › Obama’s Surprising War Powers Legacy

"We have an essay in The New Republic titled Obama, Not Bush, Is the Master of Unilateral War.  It argues that President Obama, ironically in light of his own lofty rhetoric about lodging war decisions with ‘the people’s representatives’ in Congress, has through his practices created new precedents that push outward the boundaries of unilateral presidential powers to initiate military conflict."

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