Reply #27: It's the law, and it's never been contested [View All]

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There's a reason why it hasn't been challenged: it's beautifully crafted within the spirit and provisions of the Constitution.

Congress has the right to delineate enumerated powers and craft laws to govern their exercise under the necessary and proper clause. It cites this as its justification, and goes on to effectively describe what "war" is, and in what cases the President may initiate one.

Monarchic tin-horn would-be dictators hate the Resolution and hope to chip away at its authority by the precedents of violation. It's sickening and deeply, deeply morally dishonest.

There's no "assuming the WPA is constitutional, it must be adhered to", IT'S THE STANDING LAW, AND HAS BEEN FOR ALMOST 38 YEARS. Both houses of Congress passed it, the President vetoed it, and they overrode the veto; it's THE LAW. Fuck whether people like it, it's the law it's the law it's the law.

(I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the ambient dismissive attitude toward this law and the grotesque misinterpretations of it.)

Unless Congress wants to initiate some military action and votes it through, the ONLY situation where a President may introduce forces into hostilities is IF WE ARE ATTACKED. That's it, period. It's crazy: it's as plain as day, obviously worded and settled law.