Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
On Friday, the Texas representative will introduce a resolution rebuking recent pushes to conduct military operations against Mexican cartels without Mexico’s consent or congressional authorization.
Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are ending up in the right hands.
U.S. counterterrorism action in Somalia hasn’t been approved by Congress, but it rages on anyway.
Like AUMFs before it, Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s proposed authorization would lead to less transparency in conflicts and more unilateral decision making.
“Defend the Guard” laws would keep state troops out of conflicts that Congress hasn’t authorized.
The bill is the most far-reaching recent proposal of its kind.