Congress Cannot Limit the President's Constitutional Authority
24 January 2020
David Rivkin, Jr., a Partner at Baker & Hostelter, discusses the recent resolution passed by the House of Representatives purporting to restrict the president's power to wage war, how the power to declare war is different from the power to make war and what history teaches us.
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