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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3466691" data-attributes="member: 56035">what a joke:So the general outlines of Trump’s legal basis for Friday’s bombing are fairly clear. They are also truly extreme. As Jack Goldsmith, one of the heads of the OLC during the Bush administration, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/opinion/what-happened-to-the-rule-of-law.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">has said</a>, it’s a perspective that “places no limit at all on the president’s ability to use significant military force unilaterally.”That would be bad enough, of course, if everything were out in the open. But at least then it could be debated on specifics, rather than supposition. Instead, we have allowed the Constitution to be eviscerated to the point that not only does the president have nearly unlimited war powers, we can’t even say exactly why.<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/donald-trump-ordered-syria-strike-based-on-a-secret-legal-justification-even-congress-cant-see/" target="_blank">Donald Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can’t See</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3466691, member: 56035"] what a joke: So the general outlines of Trump’s legal basis for Friday’s bombing are fairly clear. They are also truly extreme. As Jack Goldsmith, one of the heads of the OLC during the Bush administration, [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/opinion/what-happened-to-the-rule-of-law.html?smid=tw-share']has said[/URL], it’s a perspective that “places no limit at all on the president’s ability to use significant military force unilaterally.” That would be bad enough, of course, if everything were out in the open. But at least then it could be debated on specifics, rather than supposition. Instead, we have allowed the Constitution to be eviscerated to the point that not only does the president have nearly unlimited war powers, we can’t even say exactly why. [URL="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/donald-trump-ordered-syria-strike-based-on-a-secret-legal-justification-even-congress-cant-see/"]Donald Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can’t See[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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