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Rep. Barbara Lee says Biden putting US on course to end 'forever wars' with support for 2002 AUMF repeal
The White House announced this week that it supports an effort to repeal the 2002 Authorization to …
Charles Davis
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House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next week on repealing the law that made the 2003 Iraq invasion possible
Earlier this year, the Senate easily passed a bill that would repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizatio…
Bryan Metzger
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Dozens of Senate Republicans oppose overturning the law that made the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion possible
27 GOP senators voted Thursday against opening debate on a bill repealing the decades-old authoriza…
Bryan Metzger,John Haltiwanger
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Josh Hawley splits Senate GOP over 'duplicative' idea to create a new office tracking US aid to Ukraine
"This is essentially a solution in search of a problem," said the top Republican on the Armed Servi…
Bryan Metzger
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The US House voted to repeal the 2002 Iraq War authorization
The House vote is part of a growing bipartisan effort to scrap post-9/11 laws that gave presidents …
Kelly McLaughlin,John Haltiwa…
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Biden supports Congress scrapping post-9/11 laws that led to 'forever wars'
Biden wants to work with Congress to repeal laws have given every president since the 9/11 terror a…
John Haltiwanger
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Biden faces blowback from progressives over airstrikes against Iran-backed militias on Iraq-Syria border
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna told Insider the strikes show "the need for a broader strategy to bring o…
John Haltiwanger
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After a year of compromises, Biden may soon have to make hard choices about the US's role in the world
During his first months in office, Biden took laudable steps in the right direction on foreign poli…
Andrew Doris, Defense Priorit…
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House votes to bar Trump from attacking Iran without congressional authorization
The dispute over presidential war powers strikes at the heart of the never-ending debate over separ…
Eliza Relman,John Haltiwanger
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Trump might use a law signed days after 9/11 to justify war with Iran
"If [the president] wants to use military force against Iran (or any nation) he must first make his…
John Haltiwanger
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Biden faces bipartisan pushback to the airstrikes he ordered in Syria a month into his presidency
Members of Congress from both parties say they want to know under what legal authority Biden carrie…
John Haltiwanger,Ryan Pickrell
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Trump vetoes resolution limiting his ability to wage war against Iran as tensions remain high
The bipartisan measure was largely a response to a drone strike Trump ordered in January that kille…
John Haltiwanger
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27 Republicans just joined Democrats to block Trump from going to war with Iran without congressional approval
Meanwhile, the House also endorsed an amendment declaring that the 2001 Authorization for Use of Mi…
John Haltiwanger
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Biden defends airstrike on Syria in letter to leaders in Congress and says US has the right to defend itself
"The United States always stands ready to take necessary and proportionate action in self-defense,"…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Nancy Pelosi criticizes the US airstrike that killed a top Iranian commander, saying it could provoke a 'dangerous escalation of violence'
While Pelosi and the rest of the "Gang of Eight" congressional leaders who receive high-level intel…
Grace Panetta
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Pence incorrectly links Iran to 9/11 while trying to justify America's assassination of the country's top general
The AUMF, which is still in effect, is a law that passed in the days following the 9/11 attacks and…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump just had a top Iranian general killed, and it's triggering an intense debate over whether the strike is legally justified
Most legal experts said interpretations of the Constitution have given the presidency broad powers …
Ryan Pickrell
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Trump will keep the US military in Syria without new congressional authorization - and it could set a dangerous precedent
The last comprehensive congressional authorization to use military force (AUMF) came in 2001 when t…
Daniel Brown
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Congress may repeal the post-9/11 act the US military used to justify the fight against ISIS
The 2001 AUMF authorized the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those na…
Christopher Woody
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Two senators are urging Congress to vote for an official authorization to fight against ISIS
The proposed AUMF would be the first since Sept. 18, 2001, when Congress gave former President Geor…