Jack argued early this week that it’s impossible to know whether the U.S. attack against Iran was constitutional “because the constitutional law of war powers is inscrutable.” Bob responded to Jack’s post, contending that although executive branch legal opinions provide support for the attack, th...
Jack argued early this week that it’s impossible to know whether the U.S. attack against Iran was constitutional “because the constitutional law of war powers is inscrutable.” Bob responded to Jack’s post, contending that although executive branch legal opinions provide support for the attack, that doesn’t resolve the constitutional problem.
On this episode, we disagree about the constitutionality of this particular attack, but we agree that our war powers law has reached an unfortunate state of presidential dominance.
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