War Powers Act. The President can deploy troops for sixty days without Congress in an emergency. We have 1000 Americans on the ground in Syria.
Didn’t NR support the Iraq War where no war was declared? If what Trump did was unconstitutional, then a bunch of presidents violated the constitution doing this.
The War Powers Act, passed over Nixon’s veto: a US law passed in 1973 which allows Congress to limit the President’s use of military forces.
It states that the President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere, and Congress must give approval for them to stay there for more than 90 days.
It wasn’t “unconstitutional”. National Review’s scribe is either clueless or being intentionally disingenuous; IOW, a #nevertrumper.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-administration-stops-disclosing-troop-deployments-iraq-syria-islamic-state-isis-a7662016.html
Te title of this article is misleading. By law he must tell Congress.
So he told Congress. Now the critters have to agree to troops staying longer than three months.
Returning to being a nation of laws again is confusing for the left and their dupes like NR.
Whether it is sound foreign policy is a different issue.