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May 19, 2011

War? What War?

Death of the War Powers Act? - The Washington Post

This week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign..... Why, then, hasn’t the president been pressing Congress to approve the war before the looming deadline? Because it’s easier to paper over the problem with new legal fictions pretending that the time limit doesn’t apply to this instance. By Friday, the administration’s legal team is likely to announce that the clock stopped ticking on April 1 — the date when NATO “took the lead” in the bombing campaign.

Posted by Vanderleun at May 19, 2011 7:11 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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