Editorial: The House's half-baked effort to take its war powers back from Trump
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 13, 2020
2 minutes
Now that President Donald Trump has pushed the United States closer to yet another armed conflict in the Middle East, congressional Democrats and a smattering of Republicans are trying to reassert Congress' power to decide when the U.S. goes to war. What's taken them so long?
The Constitution makes the president commander in chief of the
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