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Congress: Say Trump’s Syria Strike is Illegal and Impeachable

May 18, 2017

The U.S. military launched airstrikes against government forces in Syria today. Under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, Congress has the sole authority to decide when U.S. military force will be used if the U.S. has not been attacked. Congress never authorized Trump to attack Syria, which has not attacked the U.S. Rep. Ted…

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Congress: Debate and Vote Before New Libya War

January 29, 2016

The Obama administration is drawing up plans to significantly escalate U.S. military action in Libya. Administration officials say the campaign in Libya could begin in a matter of weeks. Urge Congress to exercise its Constitutional responsibility to debate and vote before U.S. military escalation in Libya by signing our petition at MoveOn: https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/congress-debate-vote-before-new-libya-war This escalation…

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Sunset an Authorization for the Use of Force in Iraq

August 25, 2014

Judging from press reports, when Congress returns from its August recess in early September, the United States military will have been bombing "Islamic State" fighters in Iraq for a month, with a broader set of missions than originally advertised, and with plans to continue bombing for months. The United States Constitution and the 1973 War Powers…

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President Obama: Don’t Strike Syria Without Congressional Approval

August 26, 2013

On Sunday, Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Eliot Engel – a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war – told Fox News that President Obama should strike Syria first and get Congressional approval afterwards. That’s not how the U.S. Constitution says it should go. That’s not how the War Powers Resolution (which, despite the name "resolution," is binding U.S. law) says it…

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Congress: Say Trump’s Syria Strike is Illegal and Impeachable

Congress: Debate and Vote Before New Libya War

Sunset an Authorization for the Use of Force in Iraq

President Obama: Don’t Strike Syria Without Congressional Approval