Bruce Ackerman on the Need to Rein in Unconstitutional Warmaking Before it is Too Late
A prominent constitutional law scholar highlights the perils of wars waged without congressional authorization - a practice engaged in by Obama and now perpetuated by Trump.
Ilya Somin|Dec. 23, 2017 10:30 am
President Donald Trump speaks on North Korea. August 2017 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)President Donald Trump speaks on North Korea. August 2017 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman, one of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, has an insightful post on the Lawfare site critiquing the Trump Administration's dubious rationales for waging a large-scale war against the ISIS terror group without the congressional authorization required by Article I of the Constitution, which reserves the power to declare war to Congress:
http://reason.com/volokh/2017/12/23/bruce-ackerman-on-the-need-to-reign-in-u
