4/19/17 Gene Healy on the weak legal justification for Trump’s ‘drive-by Tomahawking’ in Syria

4/19/17 Gene Healy on the weak legal justification for Trump’s ‘drive-by Tomahawking’ in Syria

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.

Scott Horton

Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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