Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) criticized U.S.-led strikes on Yemen, saying they were “an unacceptable violation of the Constitution.”
“Article 1 requires that military action be authorized by Congress,” Jayapal added in her post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, late Thursday.
Other Democrats, including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), also criticized the strikes.
She’s right and Biden should go to Congress. Unfortunately, Mike Johnson and the Fascist Bootlickers will make a stink about it. Still, she’s right and the President should always follow the Constitution.
She’s wrong tho, because the Pres is following the War Powers Act
Congress is for blocking stuff he ran on but doesn’t want to pass. He gets to ignore it when it’s stuff he wants to do.
This is the kind of soundbite that comes off really nice and edgy but doesn’t actually stand up to a second of real legal scrutiny.
The President, under prior acts of Congress, absolutely has the authority to order strikes like this. You’ll notice that the complaining Congress critters here have not actually filed a lawsuit, because they know they’re wrong and will lose. The President does not unilaterally have the authority to institute single-payer healthcare or guarantee abortion rights federally.
He’s not ignoring Congress here. He’s following prior acts of Congress that are still in force. If Congress wanted to stop these actions, they could revoke those authorizations at literally any time.
The situation remains the same. He has congress to block stuff he ran on but doesn’t want to do, and he gets to eschew congress when it’s shit he wants to do.
Okay, but again, this is not an example of him eschewing Congress; this is him quite explicitly following the law as Congress has passed it, so this has essentially no relevance to any other greater grievance you might have with him.
If it’s actually illegal for him to do certain things without Congress and Congress isn’t cooperating, I don’t really see how that’s his fault either, unless you have the counter-example of this Congress agreeing to do things he said he would do but him not doing it anyway. Beyond that, it sounds like your fundamental issue is that Biden is, er, following the law?
At least we’re bombin’ shit and not helpin’ people.
The millions of people with significantly lowered insulin costs because of the IRA might disagree.
Or the 3.6 million people who have had $132 billion of student loan debt forgiven.
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-nearly-5-billion-additional-student-debt-relief
Cheers.
Idk, seems like people who want to ship things might be being helped.