The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing this Wed on the proposed 2018 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), co-sponsored past times Senators Bob Corker (R.-Tenn.) together with Tim Kaine (D-VA), was inward many ways a model of how commonwealth should work. The witnesses were skilful together with prepared, the Senators’ questions were thoughtful together with informed, together with everyone who participated was sober together with respectful. Would that nosotros approached to a greater extent than of our national decision-making this way. At the same time, it became apparent that senators’ views well-nigh whether this nib would hold upwards to a greater extent than or less effective than the existing 2001 AUMF inward constraining presidential powerfulness to job forcefulness are based on misapprehensions well-nigh where nosotros are nether electrical flow law. (Recall the electrical flow AUMF, passed precisely after the attacks...
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