Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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We can go back further to 2001.
Now, the country's response to the terrorist attacks of 9-11 was to pass the 2001 AUMF.
And again, that AUMF has not expired.
It is still in force today.
In fact, the 2001 AUMF has been used to address terrorist organizations that didn't even exist in 2001.
And so for that reason, the 2001 AUMF has been called the beginning of our forever wars, in part because it's just not clear how the objectives of the 2001 AUMF
That stretches from the Bush administration to today.
How those objectives will ever be completed?
How will we know that those objectives are done?
And even before 9-11, presidents have long argued that their constitutional authority to exercise the war power is very, very broad, so broad that Congress can't really impose any checks on it.
But of course, it takes Trump, right, a president who's not fond of any limits at all, to really force us to ask what kind of limitations there should be on what the president's war-making authority is.
Oh, there have been many calls to do this, but they've been unsuccessful.
I mean, for lots of reasons, but I think maybe the obvious political reason is politically you wouldn't want to do that as a lawmaker to say we should get rid of this.
But as a result, we have this very old authorization that is very broad, allows the president to do all kinds of things, and presidents of both parties have relied on the AOMF
to engage in military actions all over the world that sometimes have kind of just a secondary association with what happened in 9-11.
if you
I think that's right.
And also remember, because of the way the war powers are defined, meaning not defined very clearly, and the Supreme Court doesn't get involved in these kinds of questions, it means that it's just an endless, ongoing, unresolved conversation
between Congress and the president.
And remember, presidents continue to raise the question, I don't even think that Congress has the authority to do this.
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