Robert Chesney, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told the Daily Beast this week that Obamas claim of authority to bomb ISIS targets in Syria was on its face an implausible argument. The 2001 AUMF requires a nexus to al Qaeda or associated forces of al Qaeda fighting the United States, explained Chesney, but since ISIS broke up with al Qaeda it’s hard to make the case that authority granted by the AUMF still applies. And as The Nation magazines Zoë Carpenter reports: The White House’s dismissal of the need for congressional approval is also in conflict with positions Obama himself expressed as a presidential candidate. “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” Obama declared to The Boston Globe in 2008.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:35:51 +0000
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