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White House changes legal framework for Isis campaign after War Powers timetable expires | US news | theguardian.com

16.10.14

White House changes legal framework for Isis campaign after War Powers timetable expires | US news | theguardian.com: The 1973 War Powers Resolution holds that presidents have a 60-day window to conduct hostilities without an act of Congress blessing the conflict. Absent such an explicit authorization, wars are supposed to lose their legal force.

The White House repeatedly cited the War Powers Resolution throughout the summer, as it notified Congress about troop deployments and airstrikes that inaugurated the war. Initial troop deployments for the war began in mid-June, although some legal scholars doubted that the ostensibly non-combat deployments started the clock.


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