Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
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And when the military action doesn't rise to war in the constitutional sense.
So the OLC wrote the memo to justify whether Obama would have constitutional authority to use airstrikes in Libya.
So remember in 2010 and 2011, there were pro-democracy movements spreading across the Arab world in places like Egypt and Tunisia and Libya.
In Libya, this led to a violent crackdown against civilians.
And as a result, the UN Security Council had passed a resolution for military intervention in Libya.
And the United States was to lead the NATO coalition establishing a no-fly zone over the country.
This was to protect civilians who were being targeted by the Qaddafi regime.
That's a very specific objective,
But the OLC is saying, well, we can do this because it serves important national interests.
That's a pretty broad standard supporting presidential authority.
Right,
So there you have a pretty specific objective.
And then the OLC says, that's why we can do it.
It's serving important national interests, and it's really not war in the constitutional sense.
Okay.
Okay, that's 2011.
But then you see this very same two-part test from the OLC being used by the Trump administration, the first Trump administration, to justify airstrikes in Syria.
And then we get to the boat strikes.
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