The roll call Wednesday was 215-208, but next steps are uncertain. Trump would likely reject any measure from Congress to limit his commander-in-chief authority. Still, the tally, with four Republicans joining Democrats, was a rebuke of the president’s war strategy, and cheers erupted in the House chamber.
Clinton ignored the War Powers Resolution during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign. He ignored the Resolution's 60-day limit without formal congressional authorisation and ignored the fact congress voted against the declaration of war. The subsequent Campbell v. Clinton case had the federal appeals court ultimately dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that members of Congress lacked the legal standing to sue the President over his war-making actions, neutering the War Powers Resolution.
I think there's a good chance that he wants an off-ramp and will make a huge show of respecting the will of the legislature in the process of backing out of the war.
oh, I was just contemplating a different possibility of how things might unfold. I don't have so much of an investment in which is which, whatever happens with this particular issue. I'm not American or Iranian.
I do agree it will somehow turn out in his favour. I would prefer that he just fucks off instead.
The midterms will be the litmus test. If there's a strong rebuke of republican rule, look for them to move toward ditching tRump. That's my prediction.
How? He's been their whole brand for a freaking decade. And before him the best they could do was Mitt Romney types that made half of their voting base gag.
His age. Once he's a liability, he'll be quietly retired. If he costs them a lot of seats and progressives to roll in and diminish their power, the elite will abandon him.
Assuming we have untampered elections, yes. And no I don't just mean technological tampering, but ICE at polls, denying people last minute, bomb threats, and the like.
Already, they have redistricted so much I wonder if a Democratic win is even possible.
About fucking time. Even if it'd be veto, Congress should've been pushing for this among other things on a daily basis since the pedo in chief took office
Yes but if Trump is forced to veto then Congress is left again to reconsider how badly they want this to stop. We need congress to grow a pair of balls and this is apparently how it will be done.
If anybody powerful enough was ever going to stop this with nonviolence, it would have happened already.
They expect this to happen. It's part of the process. It's just more guidance on who to purge and who to villify in the media. It'll have the same effect as the children who begged Trump to stop raping them.
Technically the ABSOLUTE best case, in which Dems pick up every single Senate seat (which would probably translate to the requisite 2/3 in the House) they have the barest of margins to do so.
Technically the ABSOLUTE best case, in which Dems pick up every single Senate seat (which would probably translate to the requisite 2/3 in the House) they have the barest of margins to do so.
The realistic best case scenario—particularly after Republican-slanted gerrymandering—won't be a two-thirds majority in the house, and definitely won't be a two-thirds majority in the senate.
In this case, it ought to work exactly the opposite of how you think: a Congressional resolution is supposed to be the only thing that gives Trump authority to engage in war to begin with, so the only thing vetoing one ought to be able to accomplish is to remove that authority. There isn't supposed to be such a thing as as resolution disapproving of the President's unconstitutional unilateral action; if anything, what Congress just did should be treated like revoking its prior approval and thus not be vetoable.
The war powers resolution from the House would not immediately stop the war, but it would provide a symbolic — if not legal — step against further military action.
The resolution next goes to the Senate, where four Republican senators last month joined Democrats in advancing a similar measure to curtail the U.S. campaign against Iran. The Senate has yet to take a final vote to approve or reject its own war powers resolution.
Uh huh and I'm sure drumpf the child-rapist will certainly do what they say this time.
Fuck you, you already gave him all the power he wants to just do whatever the hell he pleases. He'll just ignore this resolution and start calling the Guardians of Pedophiles who flipped a bunch of schoolyard bully names, browbeating their spineless asses back in line...
This is needed for all the 0 negotiation BS between reopening somewhere between any day in last 2 months and labour day, and just letting Israel supremacists derail any reopening of SoH.
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