Politico's Josh Gerstein is reporting: A move by House Republicans to reauthorize the war on terror is unwise because it could foster perceptions that the U.S.

I promised earlier this week to explore the differences between the House and Senate language in their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act concerning retrictions on transfers of...

Last Friday I speculated on why Legal Advisor Harold Koh, a leading academic critic of presidential war unilateralism, supported President Obama’s constitutional arguments for the Libya intervention, as ...

The Anti-Libya Bill the House of Representatives will consider is here.  The Bill would cut off all funds for the Libya intervention except for specified support operations.  Unlike the Resolution floate...

I realize that the two Libya Resolutions being considered in the House are more for political than legal effect, but the Resolution that seeks to check the President's Libya intervention is an especially...

Lawfare readers may be interested in reading the two competing resolutions under consideration in the House this week. The first is a resolution requiring the President to withdraw U.S. forces from comb...

Senators Kerry and McCain, and eight other prominent Senators, introduced a Resolution on Libya today.  The Resolution authorizes the President “to continue the limited use of the United States Armed For...

President Obama is in a legal and political pickle concerning his unilateral intervention in Libya.  The mission is much harder than he anticipated, and it has taken much longer (months, not days) than h...

I just got a look at a bootlegged copy of the Senate Armed Services Committee language on detainee matters. The following is a quick and dirty summary--which proceeds in the order the provisions appear i...

Charlie Savage reports this morning:  “Since the United States handed control of the air war in Libya to NATO in early April, American warplanes have struck at Libyan air defenses about 60 times, and rem...

I've written a relatively brief primer on the application of the War Powers Resolution "clock" to Operation Unified Protector (i.e., the war in Libya), and have posted it at Brookings.  After detailed co...

The Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday that it had completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012.