Trump ignored Congress on war powers. Constitutional scholars want Democrats to take him to court.

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Trump ignored Congress on war powers. Constitutional scholars want Democrats to take him to court.
Should Nancy Pelosi take Donald Trump to the Supreme Court?
By Tara Golshan May 27, 2019, 7:40am EDT


A group of constitutional scholars and lawmakers want House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take President Donald to the Supreme Court — over the war in Yemen.

Their case is straightforward: Trump is unilaterally involving the United States in war, and that’s unconstitutional. For four years, the United States has participated in a war in Yemen that was never authorized by Congress, and that Congress expressly told Trump to withdraw from. Trump ignored the directive. Now, as the White House escalates tensions with Iran, there’s growing concern that unless legal action is taken, Congress will cede more war powers to Trump.

In April, Congress passed a historic War Powers Resolution, directing Trump to remove troops involved in “hostilities” in Yemen. Trump vetoed it, cementing American fingerprints on one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: According to the most recent United Nations report, 80 percent of the Yemeni population — 24 million people — is in need of humanitarian assistance. The Senate failed to reach the 67-vote threshold needed to override the executive veto on the bill.

Trump said the War Powers Resolution was an attempt to “weaken [his] constitutional authorities.” But the power to authorize a declaration of war, of course, sits with Congress, not Trump.


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[triron]

1. I think it may be a cold day in hell when that happens. I am pessimistic.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Only Congress has the power to declare war and they have not done so since 1941....

Congress will abdicate their duties if they do not put their foot down.

Had we learned NOTHING from Vietnam?

[SamKnause]

3. Have we learned NOTHING from Vietnam ?

Yes, we learned the U.S. is a warmongering country.

Proof: We invaded Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. We destabilized the entire region.

Where did the majority of the 9/11 attackers come from. Saudi Arabia. Did we attack them ? No,

instead we sell arms to them.


War is a racket to enrich the wealthy owners of corporations. It varies from bananas, oil, and everything

in between.

[love_katz]

4. +1

Exactly.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. The very Military Industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about....

and who my Father worked for the 10 years as a Design Engineer for Lockheed Missle and Space.

[triron]

6. I was one of the lucky ones to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war. I knew it was just for Big

Oil. I wasn't about to fight for Standard Oil.

[lastlib]

7. Court, hell; haul his ass off to prison--in North Korea

Or Iran. They'll know what to do with him.

[Honeycombe8]

8. The Democrats can't do everything. They're kinda busy right now.

Our govt wasn't set up for the executive branch to be corrupt, and assisted by half of Congress, so that there is only one half of Congress left to try to do something about it, with help from what nonpartisan judges are left in the court system. Even the S.Ct. has been corrupted.

They're working themselves to the bone trying to address the long list of corrupt and criminal activities they know of so far. Chairman Nadler passed out in the House last week. I don't know that they can take on anything else, without some of their efforts suffering and missing the mark.

Maybe if a different committee can take on the war issue. But I think the Oversight and Judiciary and Intel Committees have probably hit overload.

[Perseus]

9. Why are we, Democratic voters, not angry about the lack of action from our elected officials

We have the Congress now, the longer they take to do what is right the more difficult it will get.

If you pour cement in the wrong place you don't wait for it to get hard to remove it, you do it immediately while the cement is still wet.

[CaptainTruth]

10. Most folks don't realize Congress hasn't declared war since 1942.

Wikipedia:

The last time Congress passed joint resolutions saying that a "state of war" existed was on June 5, 1942, when the U.S. declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

[real Cannabis calm]

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