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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scroll down that page to the section about "Questions regarding constitutionality" after reading that, also consider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Clinton

Campbell v. Clinton, 203 F.3d 19 (D.C. Cir. 2000),[1] was a case holding that members of Congress could not sue President Bill Clinton for alleged violations of the War Powers Resolution in his handling of the war in Yugoslavia.

Further reading

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/16/137222043/why-the-war-powers-act-doesnt-work

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31133

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/RL33532.pdf

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-exactly-is-the-war-powers-act-and-is-obama-really-violating-it

TL;DR a law being passed that intends to achieve a certain outcome is not the same as it actually achieving the outcome. The law intended to constrain the president but failed because it had no enforcement mechanism and could be vetoed by President

As Bernie well knows because he twice sponsored a change to the law that was vetoed by trump (2019 & 2020) - See your wikipedia page in the sections for Yemen and Iran

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Weird that he didn't try in 2021 or 2022.

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  • The only military actions Biden did in those years were "one and done" and thus there was nothing Bernie (or the GOP) could do. Ignoring the Afghanistan shit-sandwich Mango handed him to deliver which very definitely had been passed through congress.

    Somalia 2021 - missile strikes over in a day and no further action, 2022 strike on Ayman al-Zawahiri one off drone hit.

    Those aren't ongoing so the most you could do is a grandstanding slap on the wrist "bad president" in some form of legislation that the President is just going to veto. You can't pass a law telling him to stop doing it when it's already been done.

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