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The Legality of the Venezuela Invasion (execfunctions.org)
13 points by treetalker 19 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> As [the author] wrote in connection with the Soleimani strike: “our country has—through presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization, delegation, and acquiescence—given one person, the president, a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war. That is our system: One person decides.”

> This is not the system the framers had in mind, and it is a dangerous system for all the reasons the framers worried about. But that is where we are—and indeed, it is where we have been for a while.

So much for Originalism.


little late for that!




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