Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses the media’s strained constitutional justification for Trump’s “limited military activity” in Syria; and why the 1973 War Powers Resolution doesn’t give the president a free pass to initiate offensive military strikes without congressional approval, contrary to popular opinion.
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