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To: dsm69

Exactly. Trump should ignore the ruling and state these actions are pursuant to Congressional authorization.

The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Pub. L. 107-40, codified at 115 Stat. 224 and passed as S.J.Res. 23 by the United States Congress on September 14, 2001, authorizes the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 and any “associated forces”. The authorization granted the President the authority to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against those whom he determined “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups.

The AUMF was signed by President George W. Bush on September 18, 2001. As of December 2016, the Office of the President published a brief interpreting the AUMF as providing Congressional authorization for the use of force against ISIS and other Islamic militant groups.

All Trump is doing is conducting operations to interdict the inflow of ISIS and other Islamic militant groups into the US. The force he’s using with the immigration action is simply “non-lethal” force.


80 posted on 02/03/2017 5:35:19 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

+1


134 posted on 02/03/2017 6:52:18 PM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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