Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Trump's Secret War Powers Memo

What follows is the first paragraph of Spencer Ackerman's 2-20-18 Daily Beast article entitled "What's Inside Trump's Secret War Powers Memo?":

"Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed a senator in a recently-revealed letter that President Trump considers himself to possess inherent constitutional authority to launch military action without any act of Congress, a sweeping assertion that appears to resurrect from the early George W. Bush years the most imperial notions of the presidency."

To read the rest of Ackerman's article, click HERE.

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