On Thursday the House voted to repeal the 2002 authorization that led to the war with Iraq. The House voted 268-161 to repeal the authorization saying the 20-year law is no longer necessary. When Republicans were in control of the House it also voted to appeal the authorization act but ultimately it went nowhere, this vote signals the repeal is going momentum to make to the President Biden’s desk.
The Hill reports:
The war authorization was initially passed by Congress to allow the U.S military to go after former President Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, though it has occasionally been used to bolster the legal rationale for other military engagements in recent years.
“Repeal can prevent our country from entering another protected protracted engagement under this outdated authority,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the sponsor of the repeal bill, said Thursday. “We can’t afford to leave this in place indefinitely. For two decades, it has been in place. This is our opportunity to restore our constitutional role.”
The Biden administration has also come out in support of repealing the 2002 AUMF, with the White House saying in a statement this week it backs Lee’s bill because “the United States has no ongoing military activities that rely solely on the 2002 AUMF as a domestic legal basis, and repeal of the 2002 AUMF would likely have minimal impact on current military operations.”
Still, Republicans argued that taking the 2002 AUMF off the books would hamstring U.S. counterterrorism missions, saying it should not be repealed until a replacement for the 2001 AUMF is agreed to.
The Trump administration also cited the 2002 authorization in part for its legal justification in the drone strike that killed Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani.
It would be even better if congress would REPEAL everything that is either unconstitutional or extra-constitutional. That would keep them busy for years!
It would except most don’t know or care to know how the Constitution constrains them. Heck, they don’t even know our basic form of governance. You hear them all the time saying the U.S. is a democracy. The Framers EXPLICITLY rejected and opposed that form of governance, in favor of a limited constitutional republic. In fact, the biggest of the big debate was on whether the limited powers proposed in the Constitution went too far.
Exactly. Americans should have seen through the ruse of political parties. Dividing Americans in that manner has created a government of monstrous proportions, with no end in sight of the agendas they can implement to continue expanding their authority, and erode our freedoms.
HA!! They would have to show up to work! And as Leftshot said, most don’t know or care what is and what is not constitutional… American people think, well, if it passed congress or the president signed it, it must be good… That is BS and the recent admin and POTUS#44 prove that a lot of unconstitutional things get passed into law and burden the citizens.
Don’t forget the media. They’re ‘in’ on these shenanigans. Read about TASS, and how that organization functioned.
As soon as the AMERICAN PEOPLE realize that the dumbocraptic party is a terrorist organization, the sooner AMERICA will return to it’s status as the GREATEST nation on earth.
I don’t understand how anyone in their right mind can support the commie bastards
AMEN
I think the Democrats all slept through Civics class. They missed the part about the Declaration of Independence and core Constitutional values.