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.

The president set aside the views of Defense Department and Justice Department lawyers on a critical War Powers Resolution question regarding U.S. operations in Libya.

Rick Pildes has a very thoughtful post at Balkinization on the constitutional politics of the War Powers Resolution, the difficulties Congress faces in responsibly controlling executive discretion to mak...

My analysis of the War Powers Resolution yesterday assumed, based on Charlie Savage’s story, that the only kinetic fire that U.S.

Josh Rogin at The Cable reports that Senators Kerry and Lugar agree that there should be a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on WPR compliance in relation to Libya. So many interesting possibili...

Three somewhat broader thoughts in addition to this morning’s analysis: 1.

I had thought that the WPR debate in regards to Libya would eventually be eclipsed by a vote on whether to provide supplemental funding to sustain continued operations.  But that, it seems, won't happen....